Farmers frustrated on removing cesium tainted straw

[kristopher]

Farmers frustrated on removing tainted straw

MORIOKA--Livestock farmers in three disaster-hit prefectures in the Tohoku region are having difficulty disposing of rice straw contaminated with radioactive cesium from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Cattle farmers are complaining that the central and local governments have not decided how to get rid of the contaminated straw.

"We have no space to store new straw, even though the rice harvest season has started. We want the government to remove the contaminated straw as soon as possible," one farmer said.

More than 600 bales of straw sat in one greenhouse at a cattle farm in southern Iwate Prefecture. Their combined weight was more than 60 tons, the farmer said.

Radioactive cesium of more than 8,000 becquerels...

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111008002754.htm

[midnight]

1. K&R Those poor famers...

[iemitsu]

2. yikes!

this is so sad.

[obxhead]

3. I wonder how the gathering of that tainted straw has affected

their equipment.