A secure repository for nuclear waste has remained a long-elusive goal on the archipelago. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aerial view of a nuclear waste storage area in Futaba, with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the background. Naturally, unlike Fukushima’s human residents, robots would be oblivious to the elevated radiation levels found outside the Fukushima Daiichi facility. Government officials, including those tasked with nuclear waste storage, describe the quintessentially Japanese strategy of saki-okuri, or calculated postponement, in the context of nuclear waste storage. After all, the electricity from Fukushima Daiichi went straight to the capital, not to Fukushima itself, which bore the risks.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2018 13:07 UTC