中国電、中間貯蔵でボーリング調査　山口・上関町への立地見極め

　中国電力は２３日、原発から出る使用済み核燃料を一時保管する中間貯蔵施設の建設を巡り、山口県上関町でボーリング調査を始めた。調査は半年間の予定。地下１００メートルから３００メートルの深さで行う。活断層の有無や地層・地質の分布などを調べ、立地が可能かどうかを見極める。「適地」と判断すれば、建設に向けた同意を町に求める方針だ。（2024/04/23-12:10）

Chugoku Electric Power Co. started a drilling survey Tuesday in the town of Kaminoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture for the possible construction of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel generated from nuclear power plants.
   The survey, to continue for six months, is scheduled to be conducted at a depth of 100-300 meters underground to check the presence of active faults and the distribution of strata and geology.
   Chugoku Electric will ask the town government to agree on the construction of an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel if the site in the western Japan town is found to be suitable to host such a facility.
   The company may set up the facility in the planned site of a nuclear power plant in the town. The plant's construction by Chugoku Electric has been suspended.
   In August last year, the Kaminoseki government accepted a plan to allow Chugoku Electric and Kansai Electric Power Co. to conduct a joint survey for the construction of the storage facility.