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Full cleanup of Fukushima area to begin in March or later

Japan to Begin Radiation Cleanup from Late March or Later Arirang, DEC 12, 2011, Reporter : emilyfwang@arirang.co.kr Over in Japan where authorities are still struggling to contain the nuclear fallout from March’s earthquake and tsunami the government says a full radiation cleanup of areas contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster can only begin in March next year, at the earliest.
According to Tokyo’s environment ministry on Sunday, all-out efforts
to decontaminate regions highly polluted by radiation should not be
able to begin until March 2012 as the government must first obtain
consent from all landowners of the area and secure storage sites for
radioactive soil removed from contaminated regions.
A set of guidelines was also presented on ways to clean up radioactive
material in areas with annual emission of one to 20 millisieverts of
radiation… http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=123518&code=Ne2&category=2

December 12, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment, Japan