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Petition against use of radioactive soil in Japanese public works

sign-thisOn March 30, the Ministry of Environment (MOE)’s working committee decided to allow the use of contaminated soil (lower than 8,000 becquerel/kg) for public works nationwide with “proper containment measures.” The committee argues that the additional effective dose for residents will be less than 10µSv/year, but the Nuclear Reactor Regulation Act specifies 100 becquerel/kg or less as the threshold for reusing concrete and metals from nuclear power plants. Therefore, MOE’s latest policy increases the threshold eightyfold.

We should not allow the government to loosen the regulation and spread the contaminated soils our environment.

Please sing our petition via Google forms ( https://goo.gl/37E4dZ ) or via Change.org ( https://goo.gl/37E4dZ ).
You can read the whole statement here http://www.foejapan.org/en/energy/doc/160427.html .

May 13, 2016 - Posted by | ACTION

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