What to do with nuclear waste? Hey, lets send it to Mongolia

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/09/energy-nuclear-mongolia-idUSL3E7G80HD20110509

Japan, U.S. plan nuclear waste storage in Mongolia -paper

TOKYO | Sun May 8, 2011 10:18pm EDT

TOKYO May 9 (Reuters) - Japan and the United States plan to jointly build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Mongolia to serve customers of their nuclear plant exporters, pushing ahead despite Japan's prolonged nuclear crisis, the Mainichi daily said on Monday.

A Trade Ministry official said Japan, U.S. and Mongolia officials, at a meeting shortly before Japan's March 11 earthquake, informally discussed possible construction of a nuclear waste storage facility for countries with nuclear power plants but no spent fuel storage capability of their own.

He said there were no concrete plans at this time but the ministry would consider such a project if Mongolia were interested.