Students offered reward for joining gov't events on nuclear waste

Students have been lured by money and other rewards to attend government events to promote public understanding linked to hosting final disposal sites for high-level radioactive nuclear waste, one of the organizers said Tuesday.The revelation of a possible attempt to manipulate the participants in the events may serve as a blow to the government's renewed efforts to select final nuclear waste disposal sites after seeing little progress on the issue over the past 20 years or so.The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, which along with the industry ministry has organized the events…READ FULL ARTICLE