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Survey: 76% of nuclear evacuees would tolerate waste storage facilities near their homes

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

2013/01/01

A resident of an area that could host an interim radioactive waste storage facility, said in the survey: "I don't think the rebuilding of Fukushima Prefecture will get under way unless interim storage facilities are built. Mere opposition will not get us anywhere. Nothing can be achieved unless Futaba county's eight towns and villages are united." (Kazuhiro Nagashima)Workers decontaminate a road in the Ottozawa district of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, slightly over 1 kilometer from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, in February 2012. A candidate site for an interim radioactive waste storage facility lies on the far side of the private house in the photo. (Takayuki Kihara)

Seventy-six percent of residents from candidate areas to store soil contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Fukushima disaster would reluctantly accept interim storage facilities in their neighborhoods, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.