A temporary storage site for soil contaminated from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in February

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   Bo Jacobs (bojacobs@hcommons.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 19:43:29 JST Bo Jacobs

   Normalizing radiation:

   "Ministry plans tests on reusing Fukushima soil in Tokyo area"

   "The Environment Ministry is eyeing the Tokyo metropolitan area for its first trial runs outside Fukushima Prefecture on reusing soil decontaminated after the 2011 nuclear disaster, The Asahi Shimbun learned on Dec. 6.

   Reusing the soil is part of the government’s efforts to reduce that volume before disposal.

   Under the experiment in Tokorozawa, decontaminated soil will be reused for lawns, and tests will be conducted to verify changes in radiation doses in the air.

   For the trial runs in Tokyo and Ibaraki Prefecture, the soil will be used for parking lots and flower beds.

   'We would like to use the experiments to gain public understanding regarding the reuse of the soil' #Environmental Minister Akihiro Nishimura said at a news conference on Dec. 6"

   Asahi: https://shrtm.nu/WwMG

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