Breaking News: Incinerated ash of over 100,000 Bq/kg is allowed to be dumped into landfills

Ministry of the Environment (MOE) is going to legalize dumping incinerated ash, which is over 100,000 Bq/kg, into landfills.

They are allowed to dump incinerated ash of 8,000 ~ 100,000 Bq/kg into landfills since this June.

Now that they have legalize it, there will be no limit to the levels of contaminated incinerated landfill.

MOE made it a condition to shelter it with concrete and do the best to separate it from ground water.

(Source)

環境省は2日、東京電力福島第1原発事故で放射性物質に汚染された廃棄物の焼却灰について、放射性セシウムが1キロ当たり10万ベクレルを超える高濃度の灰でも埋め立てが可能とする基準をまとめた。周囲をコンクリート壁で覆った「遮断型最終処分場」への埋め立てを条件とし、地下水への汚染防止などに万全を期す。(2011/12/02-19:46)

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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