nuclear-news

1 February 2014

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_02_01/Complaint-over-throwing-radioactive-waste-in-Japan-has-been-filed-by-police-7113/

Among them was Norio Ishida, who is a former professor of environmental toxicology at Kyoto University and one of the five members who signed the petition.

This is what he said about the case: “It is our responsibility to keep radioactive materials from spreading. We filed the complaint as part of that effort.”

The document states that the head of a consulting company with another three people have steered a company in Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, to dumping wood waste with radioactive material.

The waste, which was produced at a lumber factory in the Fukushima city of Motomiya, was thrown into the river on a private property nearby in Takashima. There is no need to say that it was done without the consent of their owners.

Massive amounts of radioactive material was leaked from the Fukushima power plant into Fukushima Prefecture straight after it was destroyed in a powerful earthquake and tsunami that took place in the region back in March 2011.

Voice of Russia, The Japan Times