Radiation Cleanup Confounds Japan

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KORIYAMA, Japan—Nearly eight months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident scattered radioactive material over surrounding communities, Japan still is struggling to figure out how to clean up the mess, exacerbating fears about health risks and fanning mistrust of the government.

Government guidelines provide scant detail about the $14-billion-plus effort. A new cleanup law doesn’t take effect until January. Cities across Fukushima prefecture are scraping contaminated topsoil off school grounds and parks, but Tokyo hasn’t yet decided where to store the tainted material. Frustrated residents of some towns have planted sunflowers in a fruitless effort to suck radioactive cesium out of the

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"This type of shallow-pit burial has not been used in the U.S. since the 1960s," she says. "This is definitely not a good idea."

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"We don't have experience in this field," Vice Minister Hideki Minamikawa said in an interview. "We're talking about such a vast area," especially when including contaminated sludge piling up in places beyond Fukushima prefecture. "Currently, there are no clear signs yet on what needs to be done to make decontamination a success," he said.

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Thousands rally for Fukushima compensation, decontamination

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/thousands-rally-for-fukushima-compensation

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1. Aw hell!

So why does any country have any future plans for nuclear power? Those poor people!!!!