Contaminated Fukushima soil delivered to PM office

Harmless stuff: Bags of contaminated soil being delivered to the Japanese prime minister’s office to be reused in the garden, in Tokyo. — AP

Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered 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.