Read moreAway from the public gaze, they remove the latest of the more than 1,000 black sacks filled with radioactive soil and unload their contents into giant sieves. The decontamination operation cleaned generated millions of cubic metres of radioactive soil, packed into bags that carpet large swaths of Fukushima prefecture. But the government’s blueprint for the soil is unravelling: so far, not a single location has agreed to accommodate the toxic waste. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rows of black bags at a soil storage facility in Fukushima. “I don’t believe for a minute that they will be able to move all that soil out of Fukushima,” he said.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2019 08:26 UTC