Tokyo: Japan’s government has decided that a state-owned company will be responsible for the disposal of contaminated soil and other radioactive waste outside Fukushima Prefecture.
The government plans to purchase land plots in Futaba and Okuma towns in Fukushima Prefecture in order to build interim storage facilities there, according to Japan’s (NHK WORLD) website.
The interim facilities will store soil and other waste from cleanup work in areas contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.
But local people fear the facilities will become final disposal sites.
Russia’s Putin arrives in China
Shanghai: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Shanghai early yesterday to start his state visit to China and attend the upcoming Asian security summit.
Putin will attend the fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia scheduled in Shanghai.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin will hold talks and make a “substantial” statement, and also witness the signing of a series of important bilateral cooperation agreements.
Agencies
