The government plans to step up its efforts to find a local government willing to host a final disposal site for nuclear waste. The government should naturally assume the responsibility of dealing ...

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan has concluded it can move on to a preliminary survey that involves drilling work in Suttsu and Kamoenai.

A Japanese nuclear waste management body submitted a report Friday on the results of a survey to select a final disposal site ...

Reports by a nuclear waste management body say two municipalities in northern Japan are candidate sites for a second-stage survey to choose a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from ...

The mission is part of a decades-long effort to decommission Fukushima, where an estimated 880 tonnes of fatally radioactive fuel remain.

Only one said Suttsu should host the final disposal facility if the town is recognized as a suitable site. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan is also conducting the bunken chosa ...

The mound would be known as the Near-Surface Disposal Facility, or NSDF. On Nov. 19 and 20 Justice Whyte Nowak heard arguments from citizen groups on why the decision by the Canadian Nuclear Safety ...

It is well into its decommissioning process after shutting down in 2021: The remaining waste of ... that spent nuclear fuel is safe. Many other countries – France, the UK, Japan – regularly ...

Governments in Canada, the U.S. and abroad and some companies are all eyeing nuclear power to meet a growing demand for ...

There are other power sources that are easier and cheaper to deploy, experts said. Singapore, the smallest country in Asia by ...