Japan setting aside $970 million to store tons of soil contaminated by radiation

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/11/japan-setting-aside-970-million-to-store-tons-of-soil-contaminated-by-radiation/




Japan is planning to earmark $970 million for a storage facility for tens of thousands of tons of soil contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima disaster, a report said Wednesday.

The government will set aside the cash to buy some 1.2 to 2 square miles of land somewhere near the crippled plant, the Asahi Shimbun reported.

But finding a candidate site for the facility, which the government envisages using for 30 years, is a political challenge as no local authority has so far raised its hand.

Tokyo would like to use land in three heavily contaminated towns near the plant, said the paper, adding environment minister Nobuteru Ishiara will speak with local officials this weekend.

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1. They're not just going to dump it into the ocean like all the other radioactive contamination?...