27 Dec (NucNet): Officials from the Japanese Ministry of the Environment have told representatives from areas affected by the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident that the ministry intends to establish an interim storage facility for soil and other waste generated from decontamination work.
According to the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, the facility will allow centralised safe management and storage until the waste is finally disposed of “somewhere outside the prefecture”. The interim storage period is likely to be 30 years from when storage begins in January 2015.
So far, soil and waste generated from decontamination work has been stored at temporary sites.
