Overseas Network, February 28th. It has been nearly 11 years since the Fukushima nuclear leakage accident in Japan. Japanese media reported on the 28th that the local "decontaminated soil" that has been treated in the nuclear accident is expected to be moved in by the end of March. The storage facility in Fukushima Prefecture, with a total volume of about 14 million cubic meters, is planned to be reused by the Japanese government.

　　According to the Jiji News Agency, Japanese law stipulates that "except contaminated soil" must be transferred to the final disposal site outside Fukushima Prefecture by 2045, but the receiving location has not yet been set.

Due to the huge amount of soil, Japan's Ministry of the Environment has made plans to reuse "decontaminated soil" with a low concentration of radioactive substances in public works projects or agricultural land across Japan.

The Japanese government hopes to reuse three-quarters of the total.

　　At present, the "decontaminated soil" storage facilities in Fukushima Prefecture are all around the Fukushima nuclear power plant, covering an area of ​​1,600 hectares.

The total amount of "decontaminated soil" transported here is about 14 million cubic meters, equivalent to the size of 11 Tokyo Domes (a multi-purpose stadium with 55,000 seats).

　　In order to allow the public to accept the recycling of "decontaminated soil", the Ministry of the Environment of Japan has held forums in Tokyo and Nagoya where ordinary people can participate in the discussion since May 2021, and has promoted related projects in some locations. Contaminated soil" is used for agricultural land, cultivation of flowers, vegetables, etc.

However, the local people did not "buy it", and the road construction projects for "removing polluted soil" in Nihonmatsu City and Minamisoma City were forced to stop amid the unanimous opposition of the residents.

Japanese media said that future related plans are likely to be in trouble.

Hiro Kainuma, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Tokyo, said that he hoped the Japanese government would release relevant information in detail. "People in areas far from Fukushima may not agree with 'decontamination of soil'." (Overseas Network - Wang Shanning)