`Severe evaluation is also harsh.''
At the all-members council held on the 23rd, the Fukui Prefectural Assembly heard the national government's opinion on the spent fuel removal plan presented by Kansai Electric Power. Noriaki Ozawa, deputy director-general of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, explained, "It can be evaluated as one of the means of ensuring transportation outside the prefecture." Lawmakers said, "I want to give a certain evaluation," said lawmaker Hironori Tanaka, but there were a series of harsh voices, such as "I don't understand the grounds for the planned site," said lawmaker Norikatsu Nakakura.
