The city in Nagasaki Pref decides not to request a government survey of a nuclear waste site.

Wednesday, the mayor of Tsushima, a city in southwestern Japan, announced his decision not to apply to the state for a preliminary survey to determine the city's suitability to host an underground disposal site for highly radioactive refuse from nuclear power production.

"There is insufficient consensus among the public," said Mayor Naoki Hitakatsu during a municipal assembly meeting, with some expressing concern about ....