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FUKUSHIMA PREF. GOVT ACCEPTS \u2018TEMPORARY\u2019 RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE<\/h1>\n
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via\u00a0channelnewsasia.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\/ September 1, 2014 \/ The governor of disaster-struck Fukushima agreed on Monday (Sep 1) to accept the \u201ctemporary\u201d storage of nuclear waste from the Japanese accident, paving the way for an end to a years-long standoff.\"workers-move-waste-containing-radiated-soil-leaves-and-debris-from-the-decontamination-operation-at-a-storage-site-in-naraha-town-near-the-fukushima-nuclear-campus\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yuhei Sato has been cajoled and lavished with the promises of subsidies if he accepts a central government plan to build a depot on land near the battered Fukushima Daiichi plant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have made an agonising decision to accept plans to construct temporary storage facilities in order to achieve recovery in the environment as soon as possible,\u201d Sato told central government ministers in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

The worst nuclear accident in a generation erupted in March 2011 when a huge tsunami swamped the plant on Japan\u2019s northeast coast, flooding cooling systems and sending reactors into meltdown.<\/p>\n

The resulting plumes of radiation contaminated areas far and wide, rendering a swathe of Fukushima uninhabitable, perhaps for generations, and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes.<\/p>\n

Tokyo\u2019s solution has been to try to scrub the radiation from the affected areas, often by lifting topsoil in the hope that contamination levels will go down. This has left the thorny problem of what to do with all the waste, with no community in Japan prepared to accept its permanent storage.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s answer has been to seek a temporary fix while it works on getting a long-term plan in place. While observers have long said the area around Fukushima is the only viable option, people already displaced have seen it as unacceptable because it would in effect finalise the abandonment of their communities.<\/p>\n

Sato\u2019s acquiescence came after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe\u2019s government offered subsidies worth more than \u00a5300 billion (US$2.9 billion), including land rent for the facility location. Under the plan, the government will build storage units on an area of 16 square kilometres near the still-fragile power plant.<\/p>\n

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