Radioactive soil could fill 23 Tokyo Domes

[xchrom]

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110928x2.html

Radioactive soil and vegetation that must be removed in Fukushima and four adjacent prefectures could reach up to 28.79 million cu. meters, equal to filling the Tokyo Dome 23 times, according to a recent Environment Ministry estimate.

But finding a disposal or temporary storage site will be a tall order.

The estimate covers soil and dead leaves mainly from areas with radiation levels of more than 5 millisieverts per year in the prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi, Yamagata, Tochigi and Ibaraki, whose data were used to mete out the rough figures.

In Fukushima, home of the nuclear plant leaking all the radiation, about 17.5 percent of the prefecture is contaminated to that level.

The estimate was submitted Tuesday to a 12-member expert panel working out decontamination plans. The panel assumed that 5 cm of topsoil should be removed from contaminated areas, including pinpoint decontamination efforts in certain locations with radiation of 1 to 5 millisieverts per year.

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Clean, safe, too cheap to meter.

[kristopher]

2. I suspect that information is outdated as of today

High cesium levels detected over 250 km from Fukushima Daiichi – Up to 600,000 Bq per square meter or higher in 60 Km radius

http://enformable.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/968f6_IaOKN5-CH9XYUrHZbWbsCjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBUQF1ynBdGblrT_wPcv2AQe

http://enformable.com/2011/09/high-cesium-levels-detected-as-far-away-as-gunma-prefecture-up-to-300000-bq-per-square-meter/