We have finished with the Shimokita peninsula and are travelling Southwards. In this area is the Rokkashu Reprocessing plant, a controversial plant for reprocessing and recycling nuclear waste materials.
They have a good visitors centre with explanations of the process. It appears that a large portion of the low level nuclear waste can be recycled by taking out the plutonium and the uranium. This leaves a small amount of high level radioactive waste. They have not yet done anymore than process some test materials, but they plan to bury the high level waste 300m deep in bed rock in an area that is stable geographically.
Lake Towada was the next stop, recommended by our friend Nakamura for its beauty at this time of year. And it didn't disappoint either! There is a long river side walk in the approaches to the lake, but we weren't the only ones there to see it. There were hundreds of people walking and photographing the colours and the river. But it was still inspirational.
That night we awoke to our first frost of the trip. It was 0.5 degrees C in the morning! Thank goodness for the heater!
Oh,you are in Aomori now.
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We thought of you Nakamura while we were there. It was indeed very beautiful and we were glad we went there. It was very different from when we were there in June.
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