It is the only one among them that hosts a nuclear plant. Japan needs a radioactive waste disposal facility as it has produced more than 19,000 tonnes of nuclear waste since it began generating ...

Japan is facing difficulties selecting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste left from spent fuel at nuclear power plants across the nation. First-stage surveys to find locations ...

There is also a long history of corporations and governments dumping nuclear waste into the ocean, including attempts by Japan to dump nuclear waste in the Marianas back in 1979. In the Nuclear ...

Struggles between our two nations regarding storing nuclear waste are not new ... In response to the decision to dump radioactive water, China has already banned all Japanese seafood imports ...

Japan's nuclear waste is piling up, but it has yet to find a site for its first disposal facility. Screening to assess the suitability of Genkai, a rural town in southern Kyushu, began in June.

Senior government officials have recently made remarks that appear to support a suggestion that Japan should ... Territories as the final disposal site for high-level nuclear waste from power ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, which is responsible for selecting and constructing disposal sites, has been holding briefing sessions across the country. In 2017, it came to ...

A recent series of executive orders reveal the Trump administration is interested in building out the country’s nuclear waste ...

Instead, nuclear waste has been stored in various types of tanks or turned into glass using vitrification. Japan even had plans to dump nuclear waste into the ocean. While these storage options ...