UN nuclear chief to view contaminated Fukushima soil

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 18, 2025 4:42 pm

TOKYO, Japan — The UN nuclear watchdog chief will make his first visit this week to storage facilities for vast quantities of soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Japan's government must decide what to do with the soil — enough to fill 10 baseball stadiums — scraped from the wider Fukushima region as part of efforts to remove harmful radiation.

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