Contaminated Fukushima soil delivered to Japan PM's office


FILE photo. Black garbage bags filled with radioactivity waste are kept temporarily in a field in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, March 11, 2017. - Photo: Kyodo News via AP file

TOKYO: Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday (July 19) to the Japanese prime minister's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse.

Soon after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of land in Fukushima to reduce radiation levels.

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