There are 18 million tons of debris in Miyagi Prefecture that we need to dispose of but sadly we are struggling to find other prefectures that will hep with disposal.
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Tamotsu Koizumi, a Miyagi prefectural government official. Due to radiation fears, no municipality aside from Tokyo has agreed to accept any debris from the Tohoku area. (NHK)
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sillygirl
and why should they spread the radiation around? why not make this a no man
s land and keep the stuff there. i feel for the people and i feel bad about "not in my backyard" mentality, but, come on, who wants radiation in their prefecture? thats taking "homogeneous society" to a whole new level.0
NetNinja
Launch it to the Sun.
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MaboDofuIsSpicy
There are enough hot spots in Tokyo already. We do not need more of it.
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cleo
And is the stuff actually radioactive?
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GW
its about time people realize a lot of the debris will need to be dealt with locally for the most part, time to get creative, even the stuff thats not radioactive is likely a mix of everything under the sun, wood, steel, gasoline, oil, chemicals etc etc all mixed together, awful stuff, but the solution unfortunately os to deal with it a close as possible to its source.
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LifeIsPain
This nonsense makes my blood boil! Why in the hell should anyone take their debris? Miyagi has vast open spaces no one is using. Few prefectures could claim to be as empty as Miyagi. I pulled up a map. It took about ten minutes to find a place remote and without even a stream big enough to get put on the map nearby. Its called 入森山 and its about 8 kilometers west of a town called 色麻町 ( Iromamachi?) and 4 km north of an SDF practice area. Or somewhere east of that, like 黒森 or 前森. There is whole lot of nothing. Helicopter the stuff there. Deal with your own trash dang it!
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zichi
An April survey showed that 572 municipalities and municipal associations in Tokyo and 41 prefectures were ready to accept debris from disaster-hit areas. But the number fell to 54 such bodies in an October survey, probably due to local residents' fear that such debris would be contaminated with radioactive substances.
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serendipitous
No reason for it to be radioactive. We're talking tsunami debris from Miyagi, not Fukushima. 18 million tonnes is a huge amount to somehow get rid of. Imagine 18 million mangled cars (1 ton each). The mind can't comprehend it. It's even hard to visualize what 18,000 cars would look like, let lone 1000 times that.....Hence I can see the need for some sort of national support for this. No way that Miyagi on its own can handle this.
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