Over 700 Fukushima waste bags swept away by torrential floods
Extensive and destructive floods across eastern Japan have swept more
than 700 bags containing Fukushima-contaminated soil and grass into
Japan’s rivers, with many still unaccounted for and some spilling their
radioactive content into the water system.
Authorities in the small citythan 700 bags containing Fukushima-contaminated soil and grass into
Japan’s rivers, with many still unaccounted for and some spilling their
radioactive content into the water system.
of Nikko in Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture, some 175 km away from the
Fukushima nuclear power plant, have said that at least 334 bags
containing radioactive soil have been swept into a tributary of the
Kinugawa river, The Asahi Shimbun reports.
According to the city’s
authorities, the washed-away waste was only part of hundreds of bags
being stored at the Kobyakugawa Sakura Koen park alongside the river.
Another 132 bags of waste reportedly rolled down the slopes.
