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Fukushima To Become Nuclear Dump?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-wasteland dept.

mdsolar writes "Japan's atomic energy specialists are discussing a plan to make the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station run by Tokyo Electric Power Co."

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  1. Sea level rise by mdsolar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Japan is a signatory to the London Dumping Convention which prohibits disposing of nuclear waste at sea (as is the US). Putting a dump site close to the ocean (like at Humboldt Bay Nuclear) means that the site will have to be moved, likely at great expense, owing to seal level rise.