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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday inspected an interim facility to store nuclear waste from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and surrounding areas.
Abe observed the site from the rooftop of Futaba town hall, accompanied by Mayor Shiro Izawa, TBS reported. Futaba and Okuma are the two towns chosen by the government to store nuclear waste nearly four years after the disaster that devastated the Tohoku region.
The first nuclear waste will be moved into the storage facility on March 13.
Abe assured Izawa that the government has not forgotten Fukushima citizens and promised to speed up decontamination efforts in the towns affected by the nuclear disaster.
The government is building storage units on an area of 16 square kilometers near the power plant. Nuclear waste will be stored there from March for an interim period of 30 years and then be moved to a permanent location, as yet undecided.
The plan had been held up for more than a year because the government had not been able to secure the land due to ongoing negotiations with landowners in Futaba and Okuma towns.
Okuma dropped its opposition in December and Futaba finally gave the green light on Jan 14.
© Japan Today
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harvey pekar
Ha! Just curious, not a snarky comment, but would a Japanese town rather be a nuclear waste dumping ground for 30years to forever or home to a US Military base for 30years to forever?
I mean, at least Futoba's Mayor got a visit and some dialogue, Okinawa got ignored and they're building a new base without a meeting or dialogue.
SenseNotSoCommon
today we have remembered how useful you can be