Overview

• Cabinet approval of the roadmap is slated for August 26, formalizing a schedule to begin selecting and investigating candidate final-disposal sites around 2030.
• Roughly 14 million cubic meters of decontamination soil remain in interim storage at Okuma and Futaba as of late June.
• Law requires soil exceeding 8,000 becquerels per kilogram to be finally disposed of outside Fukushima Prefecture by 2045.
• The government is piloting reuse for material at or below 8,000 Bq/kg, having buried 2 cubic meters at the Prime Minister’s residence and planning applications at nine ministry buildings from September, with a new name such as “復興再生土” under consideration.
• Since the ocean discharge began two years ago, about 110,000 tons of treated water have been released with tritium well below limits, while treatment is generating highly radioactive solid waste exceeding 2.4×10^16 Bq of cesium-137 that still lacks a disposal plan.