Soil Contaminated in Fukushima Nuclear Accident Set to be Disposed of, But Some Local Residents Have Doubts

By Tomoko Kito and Rio Sugihara / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers
17:40 JST,
August 27, 2025
The government’s five-year road map approved Tuesday for dealing with soil contaminated in the 2011 accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has raised concerns among locals over whether this timeline would be sufficient to meet the March 2045 deadline for the soil’s final disposal outsid...
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