radioactive waste
February 26, 2013
Fierce local opposition has forced the Environment Ministry to scrap and redo the selection of candidate sites to dispose of high-level radioactive waste from the crippled...
December 31, 2012
Seventy-six percent of residents from candidate areas to store soil contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Fukushima disaster would reluctantly accept interim storage...
November 29, 2012
Despite local objections, Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato on Nov. 28 made the “agonizing” decision to allow surveys at 12 candidate sites for interim storage of soil...
September 12, 2012
Citing the country's geologically unstable archipelago as a threat, the Science Council of Japan is recommending that the government build temporary storage facilities to hold...
August 25, 2012
The industry ministry plans to amend legislation to allow for "direct disposal" of spent nuclear fuel, a move away from the nation’s problem-plagued goal of creating a full...
November 14, 2011
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) has begun the installation of a storage tank at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to temporarily store radioactive waste...
September 09, 2011
FUKUSHIMA -- Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda sidestepped the controversial issue of a temporary storage facility for radioactive soil and waste when he visited Fukushima...
August 31, 2011
A key business leader has lashed out at a government plan to construct an interim storage facility for radioactive waste in Fukushima Prefecture, site of an ongoing nuclear...
August 06, 2011
HIROSHIMA--The crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has driven home the need to accelerate nuclear disarmament, experts told a recent symposium here in...
July 21, 2011
The late U.S. semiotics researcher Thomas Sebeok (1920-2001) was a professor at Indiana University when he proposed the establishment of an "atomic priesthood" in a report he...
July 15, 2011
This is the third of a five-part editorial series proposing ways for Japan to achieve a society that does not depend on nuclear power generation for its energy supply.
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