to nuclear storage

Marshall Islands

Japan says no

Japan has rejected an offer from the Marshall Islands to store nuclear waste on one of its atolls. The Japanese gov ernment said it will stick to its policy of storing its waste inside Japan.

A delegation from the Marshall islands offered Tokyo the use of an atoll already made uninhabitable because of nuclear testing carried out by the United States, since World War II.

A major Japanese daily, the Asahi

Shinbun, said the offer came from the Marshall Islands’ ambassador to the US, Wilfred Kendell.

The approach was made after a deci sion by the government of the island republic in February to examine the fea sibility of placing nuclear waste dumps on some of its atolls.