City petitions to know cause of nuke sub leak

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City petitions to know cause of nuke sub leak
Kyodo News Agency
Posted : Thursday Aug 21, 2008 7:02:16 EDT

NAGASAKI, Japan — The Sasebo city assembly unanimously passed a petition Thursday calling on the central government to urge the U.S. to clarify what caused a minute radiation leak from one of its nuclear-powered submarines at Sasebo port.

The petition also asks the central government to urge the United States to come up with steps to ensure no similar incident is repeated.

It also demands that the submarine Houston, which experienced the leak, and other U.S. nuclear-powered vessels not be readily granted port calls in Sasebo unless safety, monitoring and disaster preparedness measures are established.

A U.S. naval base is located in Sasebo.

The southwestern Japan city earlier expressed its opposition to the Houston’s entry to the port, after the revelation earlier this month that the submarine leaked water with trace amounts of radioactivity when it visited in March.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/08/kyo_subleak_082008/%2e



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