AOMORI — A ship carrying highly radioactive waste from Britain arrived Thursday morning in Japan, as local residents strongly protested the first such shipment since the Fukushima nuclear accident.
The 5,100-ton Pacific Grebe arrived at the port of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, carrying 76 cylinders of reprocessed nuclear waste from three domestic power companies — Kansai Electric Power Co., Shikoku Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co. The waste was bonded into glass and solidified in Britain, then returned to Japan for disposal.
The cylinders are to be placed in a Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. storage facility in Rokkasho for the time being. The government has yet to decide on a final disposal site.
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