Japan to ramp up search for disposal site for soil from Fukushima disaster

Japan plans to step up its search for a final disposal site for soil removed during the cleanup after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the government said Tuesday, with selection of candidates set to begin around 2030.A road map for the next five years compiled the same day at a Cabinet meeting also showed that the government eyes recycling the soil with radioactive cesium levels at 8,000 becquerels per kilogram or below in public works, among other projects."We will steadily advance the process through all-government efforts," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said at the meeting.Th…READ FULL ARTICLE