Koichi Takeda, mayor of the city of Kushima, Miyazaki Prefecture, speaks to reporters Friday following the Japanese industry ministry's explanation the same day about a literature survey for the selection of a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants.
Japan Nuclear Fuel's facility in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, to temporarily store high-level radioactive waste generated from the reprocessing of spent fuel from nuclear power plants, photographed on Sept. 17