A radioactive bus from Japan is causing problems in Jamaica. The bus was found to be contaminated when it arrived at the Jamaican port in 2012. There have also been shipments of car parts found to be radioactive at the same port.
TEPCO is continuing to try to gain public approval for using the bypass wells near the reactor buildings. These wells have shown to be contaminated with cesium and tritium on earlier rounds of testing.
Residents all over eastern Japan struggle with the government over large stores of contaminated soil and sewage ash. Piled up in bags, the waste is being stored near homes. The radiation levels of much of the waste is over the 8000 bq/kg govt. classification for nuclear waste. A group of people in Chiba have filed suit to get one such pile removed from their neighborhood.
The public run-around is a universal problem. A radiation leak in a ...