Two municipalities in Hokkaido that have applied for hosting the final deposal site for high-level radioactive waste have received mostly clean bills of health in the first survey and can move on to the next stage.
SUTTSU, Hokkaido Backers of keeping their town on a list of candidates for a nuclear waste depository won a majority in a municipal assembly election here, but those opposed to the project together marshaled 49 percent of the votes.
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