tomoko kamata, nhk world, yokohama. >>> for an update on the weather forecast, here's mai shoji. mai? >> the tropical depression has quickly formed and developed into a severe tropical storm. this is moving at a slow pace at a southwesterly direction. and looks like it's going to be moving towards the north, maybe aiming for the northeastern parts of luzon by the next few days to come. right now it is packing winds of 126 kilometers per hour, so especially in the west eastern seaboards of mindanao, those waves are going to be much higher and picking up to about 2 to 4 meters high during your weekend. so do watch out if you are in the coastal areas. now, this rain is actually just dumping across much of the philippines due to the positioning of this jelawat. strong influence of moisture targets much of the western seaboards. we already have reports of about 50 to 100 millimeters on the western seaboards around mindanao, and the ground is really loose, the land is very well saturated, so mud slides and also flooding, especially in the coastal areas, are going to be a very high risk

. >> nhk world's tomoko kamata. >>> science and technology experts in japan want the government to rethink how it deals with the by-product of atomic energy, nuclear waste. they argued against the current plan to store the waste deep underground for tens of thousands of years. they instead want it to be kept in temporary locations. science council of japan president takashi onishi presented a proposal to atop tomic emergency commission chair shunsuke kondo. the government asked the council in 2010 to review its disposal plan. the initial idea was to bury highly radioactive nuclear waste more than 300 meters underground. but opposition from people living near candidate burial sites has deadlocked the plan. the science council's proposal says the public must agree on nuclear policies before disposal sites can be selected. council members flagged japan's high seismic and volcanic activity. they say current technology can't predict which locations will remain stable for tens of thousands of years. so they suggest temporarily storing nuclear waste for decades to hundreds of years either above o

tomoko kamata, nhk world, yokohama. >>> for an update on the weather forecast, here's mai shoji. mai? >> the tropical depression has quickly formed and developed into a severe tropical storm. this is moving at a slow pace at a southwesterly direction. and looks like it's going to be moving towards the north, maybe aiming for the northeastern partinpar parts of luzon in the next few days to come. right now it is packing winds of 126 kilometers per hour, so especially in the west eastern seaboards of mindanao, those waves are going to be much higher and picking up to about 2 to 4 meters high during your weekend. so do watch if you are in the coastal areas. now, this rain is actually just dumping across much of the philippines due to the positioning of this jelawat. strong influence of moisture targets much of the eastern seaboards. we already have reports of about 50 to 100 millimeters on the western seaboards around mindanao, and the ground is really loose, the land is very well saturated, so mud slides and also flooding, especially in the coastal areas, are going to be a very hig