TOKYO (AP)– A Japanese town stated Friday it has actually consented to a geological research study to identify its viability as an acting storage website for spent nuclear gas.
Kaminoseki, a little town in the southwestern prefecture of Yamaguchi, stated it would certainly approve the deal of a study by Chugoku Electric Power Co., one of 2 significant energy drivers, in addition to Kansai Electric Power Co., whose spent gas storage swimming pools are nearly complete.
The Japanese federal government is advertising the higher usage of nuclear power as a low-carbon power resource, however the nation’s nuclear plants are going out of storage ability.
The issue comes from Japan’s delayed nuclear gas reusing program to recycle plutonium from spent gas for reuse. The federal government has actually remained to go after the program, in spite of severe technological problems. A plutonium-burning Monju activator fell short as well as is being deactivated, …