Bags of trouble

Knew this would happen! Arrest those responsible NOW!!! And ban all products from the area, citing TEPCO as the reason.

The level of incompetence and irresponsibility displayed by the government is staggeringly awful.

Don't panic - they'll all be gone by the end of rainy season.

That'll be the special affinity with nature.

Low level soil contamination is not dangerous and will be diluted by the waves.

Why have they done this? Who did this? Why are they not in jail / fined / punished? .... oh wait I forgot what country this is

@shonanbb So if its not dangerous, why did they move in the first place?

Hardly surprising sadly, this country is fracked on so so many levels, I keep having a dream I left shortly after 3/11, often times now I wish it were true!!

That picture is PERFECT metaphor for Japan & it looks like it will get uglier over time, man I wish Japan would start getting a few things right, headed in a good direction, its getting rather depressing watching the country literally rot right in front of me...........If I could go back in time sadly I would pass on these isles & a lot of it is unnecessary that's what pisses me off the most, but hey if the locals don't care..............

why did they move in the first place?

For that 0.21% in your income tax. All snouts to the trough!

I actually just showed this to some J-friends and their reaction was just a shake of the head of disappointment and they went back to what they were doing.

HOW DO PEOPLE NOT CARE?!

If I could convince the person I'm related to by marriage to leave this country, I'd have left yesterday.

I think people are overreacting to this. They only ever collected a very tiny fraction of the affected soil, mainly from gardens, farms and playgrounds. It probably represents about 0.0...001% of the soil affected by Fukushima fallout. Think about all the soil still sitting up in the mountains that will never be decontaminated.

This tiny bit of soil was only collected and bagged in order to give the impression that someone was doing something and to give people a little bit of hope that we weren't completely in over our heads. If you are shocked and angered by this photo, you probably bought into that lie. I'm sorry you weren't told the truth.

TORN BAGS containing RADIOACTIVE SOIL from decontamination work are seen DUMPED on a beach

Here's Tom with the weather!!

@M3M3M3

I'm sorry you weren't told the truth.

What else is new ???

And which direction do the ocean currents go?

People on the West Coast of the U.S.A. might think about relocating.

@klausdorth

But looking at this picture, what the hell are they thinking, what are they doing?

How long have you been living in Japan? Hear no evil, so no evil, right? Out of sight, out of mind?

All in a day's work at J Inc.!

What can we call something like this scenario? Nuclear waste disposal? It should be illegal to pollute in this way. The coastal towns are at risk of even greater amounts to radioactive contamination with this stuff washing ashore.

Disposal of nuclear waste... Japanese style ! Somebody should send that picture to UNESCO and ask for a new world heritage site to be registered because this waste is really what we could call a world heritage for centuries.

This article is woefully lacking the one major important detail, what is the radioactive level? Sorry but a minor radioactive level, one that might kill me if I spent 10 years playing in that sand, would not scare me. However, if it were a high level, one that would affect me after just a few days or less, then I would say this is some very gross negligence.

What a great photo for "Megadeth's" next CD cover . . . if D. Mustaine gets around to new material.

Yet another reason why NO nuclear reactors can be restarted.

Yet another reason why NO nuclear reactors can be restarted.

But aren't some already scheduled to go on-line soon? The warm / hot summer months are just around the corner. Fire-up those AC's.

@ Harvey.

Move along people nothing to see here, big brother loves you. Orwell would be proud.

Oh to loves ones servitude, what was it Huxley said.... something like you can do anything but sit on people but here I think you can.

Love Japan

But they got to wake up that the powers that be dont care and dont eat the food from these areas, pathetic.

Dumped on a beach? What genius thought of that one? Gross negligence

They moved it because the ignorant public thought they should do that, just like the ignorant public thinks storing low level radiated water is the proper thing to do and it is not. Dump it all in the ocean. It is huge and will take care of cleaning it.

It makes me very sad to see this. But face it, for Japanese companies it was just big business. I heard that the chemical companies that supplied the bags, charged Yen 17,000 per piece - for a product that has a world market price of $12-15. And they only gave three years warranty - now its over 5. The result becomes visible (see photo).

I had started in 2011 a crowdfunding move to implement a phytoremediation project in Fukushima. That is decontaminating soil with plants. There are plants in the world that like sucking up Cesium. No, not sun flowers, as a group in Fukushima tried (they buried the biomass afterwards - what was that good for??), but Redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus L.). A US university found a way to "turbo-charge" that plant to take up 12 times more than in its natural state. And the best - this plant is already in Japan and we found a way fro processing the radioactive plant material. With this simple method it would have been possible to fully decontaminate the whole prefecture in 10 years. Five years are already over - so less than half of the current radiation would have been possible - low cost and with natural means.

The result of my crowdfunding? $2 from a friend of mine. Despite pulling all registers on the "social media organ". Talk about ignorant public....**