Residents file suit to block burning of radiation-tainted waste

Residents in northeastern Japan filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to prevent a local public association from burning radiation-tainted waste generated by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.The city of Osaki in Miyagi Prefecture, north of Fukushima, has been keeping some 6,000 tons of tainted grass and rice straw that contain radioactive substances below state standards, and the association in charge of waste disposal is scheduled to start burning it from Monday.The residents filed the suit with the Sendai District Court in the hope of suspending the 21.6 million yen ($193,000) budget for t…READ FULL ARTICLE