Mountains of rubble remain a headache in Fukushima (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

Rubble is brought into a temporary storage space in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 23. (Kengo Hiyoshi)

IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Rubble, some of it potentially radioactive, continues to be a headache for municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture although the government has finally come up with standards to deal with it.

Rubble has piled up since May 2, when the Environment Ministry told municipalities in the Hamadori and Nakadori districts around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to suspend burning or burying rubble from the disaster site.

Sixty percent of the estimated 3.3 million tons of rubble in Fukushima Prefecture is believed to be in the Hamadori district along the Pacific coast, which includes the city of Iwaki.

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[otohara]

1. 23 years of trash

That's the figure I heard