Japan’s Environment Ministry Wants Roads Built with Fukushima Radioactive Waste

Fall Quarterly 2017 Last year Japan’s Environment Ministry announced a plan to use radioactively contaminated soil scraped from Fukushima-Daiichi fallout zones to build roads. Cleanup operations in Japan following the March 2011 triple reactor disaster included removing and collecting radioactive topsoil in one-ton plastic bags. School yards, hospital grounds, childcare facilities and thousands of other … Continue reading Japan’s Environment Ministry Wants Roads Built with Fukushima Radioactive Waste