A town in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido has applied for the first-stage survey for the government's selection of a final disposal site for nuclear waste.
The mayor of Suttsu, Kataoka Haruo, submitted the application to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, or NUMO, in Tokyo on Friday.
A town in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido says it has decided to apply for a first stage survey by the government for selecting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
Suttsu Town is now to be the first municipality to apply for the survey since the government released in 2017 a map showing areas deemed suitable in scientific terms to host such sites underground.
The home of a mayor on Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has been vandalized as the town debates a plan to host a disposal site for nuclear waste.
Kataoka Haruo, the mayor of Suttsu, notified police before dawn on Thursday that a window of his house was shattered and scorched. The mayor was not hurt.
People in Japan traditionally display colorful carp-shaped streamers for Children's Day on May 5. Yamada Town in the northeast aimed a little higher than usual this year due to the coronavirus, which has kept many kids at home for the country's week-long spring holiday.
On Tuesday, about 130 of the carp streamers were hung at a lofty 25 meters in the parking lot of the local science museum. The display makes use of two mobile cranes.