The law stipulates that a final disposal site for nuclear waste should be buried deeper than 300 meters underground. A three-stage survey is required to select a disposal site, but of these, there is a debate in Tsushima City over the acceptance of the first stage, the literature survey.
Representatives of both the opposition and the pro-choice group met with City Council Chairman Hisashi Hatsumura one after another on May 3 and handed him a petition incorporating their respective claims.Whether to adopt these petitions will be debated by the City Council later this month.