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Article: Japan Utility Asks Aomori Prefecture to Host Interim Nuclear-Storage Facility.
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- Kyodo News International (Tokyo, Japan)
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- February 18, 2004
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Feb. 18--AOMORI, Japan -- Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), asked Aomori Prefecture on Wednesday for permission to set up Japan's first interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the city of Mutsu by 2010.
Although Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura, who met with Katsumata, did not give the immediate go-ahead, Katsumata told reporters after the meeting that the company believes it is possible to start operating the facility as planned.
Amid local worries that the planned temporary storage facility will become permanent, Mimura said the prefectural government will first examine the feasibility of a reprocessing plant which ...