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Fukushima waste to be stored in Horonobe?

Fukushima waste to be stored in Horonobe?

Fukushima, Nuclear Waste July 15, 2014 at 11:57 pm 3 comments

Japanese utilities have more than 17,000 tons of “spent” fuel rods that have finished their useful life but will remain dangerously radioactive for thousands of years. What to do with them is a vexing problem that nuclear-powered nations around the world face, and that has come to the fore as Japan debates whether to keep using nuclear energy after the 2011 disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima plant.