Japan May Charge for Nuclear Waste Disposal, Nikkei Says

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Japan May Charge for Nuclear Waste Disposal, Nikkei Says
  
Tokyo, March 3 (Bloomberg) -- The Japanese government will submit 
legislation that will require the country's electric power companies 
to pay for treatment of radioactive nuclear waste, the Nihon Keizai 
newspaper said, without citing sources. Tokyo Electric Power Co., 
Japan's biggest utility, would have to spend somewhere between 15 
billion yen to 20 billion yen ($138 million to $185 million) annually 
as a result. Japan currently sends nuclear waste to the U.K. and 
France for treatment. 

Tokyo Electric Power said last month it expects group net income of 
70 billion yen for the fiscal year through March 31, compared with 
its previous forecast of a 140 billion yen profit.

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