Private sector asked to help with tsunami debris disposal

Yes, because we trust the private sector in Japan to always puts the safety and welfare of people before profits... Oh wait thats how we ended up in this mess in the first place.

Prefectures, Private Companies who else left? People, ask them to keep 100gm per person and pay some donation to them as well :(

Debris? if this was in netherlands, they would just crush and use it to reclaim land from the sea or make barriers to fend off waater waves. When the barriers become firm, they pile wind mills on top! Almost all the energy we use comes from wind. they use almost everything available to reclaim land......I am surprised J governemtn cant find use fo dat debris begging dem prefectures to share debris. Where are the enginous japanese of old days?Wehre are the japanese who defeated americsns, chinese, russians, british, etc etc

Sounds like a job for the guys in sunglasses with a couple of missing fingertips. They seem more likely to get the job done than anyone else.

They need to stop wasting time and use/dispose of the waste in the prefectures where it lays. Using the wood to heat boilers and such doesn't sound like a bad idea, but once you accept that wood there will probably be a few more favours asked of you. Of course they'll compensate handsomely (ahem, pay off) and all will be well in the Universe. It's the money that will ultimately convince people to take in the debris.

This is about to get real dirty.

Ministry of Environment doesn't even ask Japanese companies to stop polluting (just to report how much they pollute), so yeah, Japanese concrete nature is about to get really dirty.

Yes, because we trust the private sector in Japan to always puts the safety and welfare of people before profits... Oh wait thats how we ended up in this mess in the first place.

Or, because of over cautious public has driven it this way. Regardless of the reasons WHY the public is cautious, this is why it is going this way, and is going to cost the public more, and there may will be less transparency.

Private sector = yakuza, expect it to be dumped somewhere not cool

This is nuts!

cement makers, paper mills and steelmakers to recycle wood, metal and soil

SOIL is a debris?

Yup soil is a Debris, JAEA researchers are saying that the radioactive materials a.k.a. cesium etc. has gone 10 to 30 centimeters into the soil this past year because of the rain fall they think.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/radioactive-materials-in-soil-may.html

So, having tried to browbeat prefectural governments with the standard "if you care for the people of Tohoku, you will do as I say" emotional blackmail he churned out on Sunday, he's now just opening the piggybank to any takers in the private sector, with no accountability or oversight.

Kashiwa city had to close down its incinerators last October because the city government decided - without consulting the taxpayers, of course - to accept this "safe" debris, and the incineration plants got gunked up with 78,000 bq/kg of radioactive caesium in the resulting ash.

I suppose on the plus side, once every square foot of this country gets contaminated in the name of Kizuna (but for the purpose of graft), the radiation around my Kashiwa apartment won't be anything unusual, and I might be able to sell the thing and get out of this feudal kharzi.

Of course, they will be payed for doing so. And private companies do even less filtration of emissions than the municipal rubbish incinerators. Much less. There are cement companies within spitting distance of schools. Abutting schools. At least Kashiwa closed down the incinerator after it got too hot. The private companies won't.

gouza, quit blaming the victim. That is a bad habit in this country. Why blame people for wanting to protect their children? If politicians and bureaucrats can do this, if they can intentionally contaminate the air with material they know is likely to emit radioactivity, next to nurseries, next to schools, next to homes, next to parks, there is nothing they cannot do. There are no checks on government perfidy and corruption. I am searching history for intentional official evil of this magnitude. It is breathtaking.

Also, as I just wrote on the article about Hosono (who some apparently are calling Usono (嘘の)) a school ground in Sendai is now being decontaminated because it emits a dangerously high level of radiation, exceeding national standards.

Are we supposed to think that the contamination fell on only one school ground? As I wrote, a quick look at the fallout map will prove that not to be the case. Especially in Onagawa, whose rubble is now wafting through Tokyo's skies. Any amount of contamination will add to the contamination already in the locality where it is burned. It will concentrate. The worst thing one can do to it is concentrate it. Concentration is precisely the problem many areas around Tokyo are experiencing.

Also, Soma-shi and Shinchi-machi in Fukushima are asking the national government for help disposing of debris...

The plan is to reuse non burnable concrete fragments. (For what, one might ask. To rebuild Tohoku, of course, radioactive homes, schools, clinics, supermarkets, pavements.) A lucky group these folks are. Mr. Usono's Environmental Ministry is planning to build them a temporary incinerator. I'm sure that will be a top of the line, state of the art facility, that temporary incinerator of Mr. Usono, that will not fill their children's lungs with the radiation that now lies in quiet piles. God help us all. These people are insane.

Why blame people for wanting to protect their children?

I don't blame anyone who reviews situations and makes sensible decisions. Irrational behaviour like avoiding debris from 300km from Fukushima is not rational though, and not when readings show levels as low or even lower than the area that wants to help process the debris. It is time to move on, time to understand teh dangers of radiation, of not be held ransom because you don't understand and are scared.

** I have children by the way.