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 ...

In 2002, NUMO, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, began hunting for a storage location by inviting municipalities to put themselves forward as candidate sites. To date ...

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.

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) will spend about two years examining geological maps and other documents to determine if the area is suitable for subterranean storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The three-year collaborative project is part of an effort to improve disposal of nuclear waste in underground facilities ... most underground—common nuclear industry practices in the U.S., Japan, and ...