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Fukushima – The government is set to complete by March 31 work on transferring
radioactive soil collected from areas polluted by the 2011 nuclear disaster in
Fukushima Prefecture to an interim storage facility as part of the
decontamination effort.

The facility, straddling the Fukushima towns of Futaba and Okuma, surrounds
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power
plant, the site of the triple meltdown that followed a massive earthquake and
tsunami 11 years ago.







Under the law, such soil will be transferred to a permanent disposal site
outside the prefecture by 2045. The final site has yet to be decided, however.

Since the amount of soil is massive, the Environment Ministry is planning to use
some of it for public works and other projects across the country.

“We’ll reach a major juncture” by completing the transfer, a senior ministry
official said. “From now on, we’d like to foster people’s understanding on the
reuse (of the soil).”

The 1,600-hectare interim storage site, about the same size as Tokyo’s Shibuya
Ward, is slated to hold about 14 million cubic meters of soil collected through
decontamination work.

Since 2015, such soil collected from around Fukushima has been taken to the site
after being stored at temporary storage facilities.

Over 1,800 local landowners, including residents of the towns, cooperated with
the central government to secure land to establish the storage facility, mainly
by selling their properties to the state.

Many landowners “made tough decisions to give up their properties for the sake
of reconstruction,” Okuma Mayor Jun Yoshida said. “Many were my acquaintances,
including friends from school, the person who arranged my marriage and workers
at the town office,” Yoshida added.

The ministry plans to use only soil with relatively low levels of radioactive
concentrations for public works, farmland and other purposes. It hopes that
three-fourths of the total will be reused.

A demonstration project to grow flowers and vegetables on farmland using such
soil has already started in the Nagadoro district in the Fukushima village of
Iitate.

Meanwhile, projects to utilize the soil for road construction have been scrapped
due to opposition from local residents in the cities of Nihonmatsu and
Minamisoma, both in Fukushima Prefecture.

In May last year, the ministry started holding meetings to discuss the recycling
of such soil with the general public to win wider understanding. Such events
took place in Tokyo and the city of Nagoya.

The next session is scheduled to be held in the city of Fukuoka this month.

Futaba Mayor Shiro Izawa stressed that electricity generated by the Fukushima
No. 1 plant had been consumed in the greater Tokyo area. Reuse of soil collected
through decontamination work “will not proceed unless people who benefited (from
the Fukushima plant) understand that fact,” he said.

“It is difficult for people living far from Fukushima to empathize” with those
having to deal with tainted soil, said Hiroshi Kainuma, associate professor at
the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information
Studies.

Kainuma said the government should proceed while checking constantly whether its
communication with the public on the issue is appropriate.

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