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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The government plans to step up its efforts to find a local government willing to host a final disposal site for nuclear waste. The government should naturally assume the responsibility of dealing ...

Japan is set to begin pumping more than a million tons of treated water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant ... The water disposal will take decades to complete, with ongoing ...

NUCLEAR fear can be ... days to put back in place. Anyway, Japan had safely stored the contaminated water over the years while placing it under study by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ...

Japan's Nuclear Waste Management Organisation has begun the initial stage of assessing two municipalities in Hokkaido Prefecture for their suitability to host a final disposal facility for high-level ...