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‘It’s all about money’: Japanese towns divided over nuclear waste storage plans - South China Morning Post

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In Japan, ‘desperate’ shrinking towns eye radioactive nuclear waste storage to make a fast buck: ‘it’s all about money’ | South China Morning Post

Kansai Electric Power Co’s Ohi nuclear power plant’s No. 4 reactor in Ohi, Fukui prefecture. Photo: Reuters/Kyodo

In Japan, ‘desperate’ shrinking towns eye radioactive nuclear waste storage to make a fast buck: ‘it’s all about money’

- Tiny Kaminoseki town and idyllic Tsushima island could soon host spent fuel from nuclear plants elsewhere in Japan that are running out of the storage
- Residents oppose the plans, but observers say local mayors are getting ‘desperate for funds’ after decades of population loss to the big cities

Kansai Electric Power Co’s Ohi nuclear power plant’s No. 4 reactor in Ohi, Fukui prefecture. Photo: Reuters/Kyodo

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