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SUTTSU, Hokkaido The mayor’s plan here to host a nuclear waste storage site to boost town coffers will be the foremost issue when residents go to the polls in the Suttsu town mayoral election on Oct. 26. ....
Furore in Japanese town casts light on Fukushima s legacy 12 Mar, 2021 04:00 AM 9 minutes to read Suttsu, a town on the northern island of Hokkaido, is one of only two localities in Japan to volunteer for a study on nuclear waste. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times Suttsu, a town on the northern island of Hokkaido, is one of only two localities in Japan to volunteer for a study on nuclear waste. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times New York Times By: Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno When a mayor volunteered his town for a study on nuclear waste, his house was firebombed, reflecting the lingering anxiety 10 years after the Fukushima disaster. ....
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The town hall in Suttsu, Hokkaido, where a literature survey has started on whether the municipality is geologically sound to host a final storage facility for high-level radioactive waste (Asahi Shimbun file photo) SUTTSU, Hokkaido In an abrupt turn of events, this coastal fishing town decided to hold an early referendum on whether to host a final storage facility for highly radioactive waste from nuclear plants across Japan. The town assembly on March 8 adopted an ordinance to hold a vote before Suttsu enters the second stage of the central government’s 20-year selection process for the storage site. The referendum will likely be held at the end of next year at the earliest in the town of around 3,000 people in western Hokkaido. ....
Feb 3, 2021 Two fishing villages in Hokkaido are vying to host the final storage facility for half a century of Japanese nuclear waste, splitting communities between those seeking investment to stop the towns from dying, and those haunted by the 2011 Fukushima disaster, who are determined to stop the project. In the middle is a government that bet heavily on nuclear energy to power its industrial ascent and now faces a massive and growing pile of radioactive waste with nowhere to dispose of it. Since it first began generating atomic energy in 1966, Japan has produced more than 19,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste that is sitting in temporary storage around the country. After searching fruitlessly for two decades for a permanent site, the approaches from Suttsu, population 2,885, and Kamoenai, population 810, may be signs of progress. ....