A little radiant soil near the damaged Fukushima The Dychi Nuclear Energy Station will be transferred to Tokyo and is used in the flower family in the Prime Minister’s garden, in an attempt to prove skeptical audience that the material is safe.
The decision comes 14 years after the factory suffered a triple collapse In the worst nuclear accident in the world since then Chornobyl.
The sample will take from 14 million cubic meters of soil – enough to fill 10 baseball stadiums – removed from the factory while working to make local neighborhoods suitable for the restoration of the residents.
The soil in Temporary storage In a vast location near the factory, but the authorities struggled to make progress in a legal commitment to find permanent houses for materials abroad Fukushima By 2045.
The government has suggested that the materials, which it describes as low -risk, can be used to build roads and other infrastructure in other parts of Japan. It will be used as basic materials covered with thick soil thickness enough to maintain radiation at small levels.
The officials said they hope that the gesture of the Prime Minister, Chijo Ishiba, would persuade other sites that accepting the quantities of soil will not pose a threat to public health or the environment.
“The government will take the initiative to present an example, and we will do so in the Prime Minister’s office,” said the chief captain of the Council of Ministers, Yoshimasa Hayashi, in a meeting to discuss the case.
The Fukushima Dychi Factory released large quantities of radiation in the air after it was shocked by it strongly The earthquake and tsunami On March 11, 2011. The disaster took out the facility’s reserve source, as it sent three of its reactions to a collapse.
Although most of the neighborhoods were Evacuated After declaring a safe disaster, there are many population Reluctant. Some are concerned about the possible health effects – Especially for children -To live in previous areas of occurrence, while others have built a new life elsewhere.
Working to remove 880 tons of very affected fuel from the reactor containing ships has almost started. To date, the devices specifically designed have succeeded in recovering two small fuel samples, but it is expected that all of this will take decades and cost trillion yen.
The factory operator, TOKYO Electric Power, had to deal with huge amounts of water that became contaminated when used to cool the damaged reactors. In 2023, the utility tool The treated water began to pump – With the removal of each radioactive component except for one – in the Pacific Ocean, which leads to An angry response From China and South Korea.
Removing surface soils, trees and other debris from nearby houses, schools, medical facilities and other public buildings created a stock of contaminated waste that now fills a location that extends over the cities of Fotaba and OkumaIt is located near the factory. The material does not include any wreck from inside Fukushima Dychi.
There The final report In recycling and disposing of the soil last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that the work was consistent with safety standards.
But the audience was not yet convinced. Last month, the local opposition forced the Ministry of Environment to abandon a pilot project to use some Fukushima soil as a praise for the family of flowers and meadows in public parks in Tokyo and around them.
