核ごみ調査、議会が請願採択　村長「近く考え表明」―北海道神恵内村

　高レベル放射性廃棄物（核のごみ）最終処分地選定をめぐり、北海道神恵内村議会は８日午前、臨時議会を開き、第１段階に当たる「文献調査」への応募を求めた地元商工会の請願を賛成多数で採択した。高橋昌幸村長は議会の判断を尊重する考えを示しており、結果を受けて同日午後に「少し時間をいただいて、近く私の考えを表明する」と述べた。
　村が応募すれば、２００７年の高知県東洋町以来２例目で、国が１７年に処分適地を示した「科学的特性マップ」公表後初めてとなる。（2020/10/08-13:46）

A Hokkaido village assembly Thursday adopted a petition asking the village to apply for a first-stage survey to choose a host municipality for a planned final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste from power plants.
   The petition, submitted by a local chamber of commerce, was approved by a majority vote at an extraordinary meeting of the assembly of Kamoenai in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido.
   After that, Kamoenai Mayor Masayuki Takahashi, who had expressed his intention to respect the assembly's decision, said he will announce in the near future his view on whether to apply for the so-called literature survey.
   If Kamoenai applies, it will be the country's second municipality to make such an application after the town of Toyo, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan, did so in 2007.
   Kamoenai will also be the first municipality to apply for the survey since the government disclosed areas suitable for nuclear waste disposal in its Nationwide Map of Scientific Features for Geological Disposal in 2017.