“Nuclear waste” storage facility returned from overseas passed regulatory standards August 26, 12:40
Regarding the facility located in Aomori Prefecture, which temporarily stores high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants returned from overseas, the Nuclear Regulation Authority has compiled an examination document showing that it has passed the regulatory standards. The business operator, Nippon Nuclear Fuel, plans to resume accepting waste from overseas after completing necessary construction work.
The “High-level radioactive waste storage management center” in Rokkasho-mura, Aomori Prefecture, is a high-level radioactive waste produced after consigning and processing nuclear fuel that has been used up at domestic nuclear power plants overseas, so-called “nuclear waste”. It is a facility for temporarily storing.
We have been operating it since 1995, but after the Fukushima nuclear accident, we suspended the operation and were inspected to see if it complies with the newly created regulatory standards.
Among them, Japan Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd., as well as the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant on the same site, showed measures such as raising the assumption of earthquake shaking, and the Regulatory Committee set new regulatory standards at the meeting on the 26th. We have unanimously compiled a certificate showing that you have passed.
In response, Japan Nuclear Fuel plans to resume accepting high-level radioactive waste from overseas, which has been suspended after completing necessary construction work.
High-level radioactive waste generated in Japan is temporarily stored at the facility of a reprocessing plant on the same site.
The government will eventually bury these high-level radioactive wastes in a repository that will be created deep underground, but no candidate site has been decided, and temporary storage continues.