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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Justin McCurry in Tokyo

Fukushima soil headed to Japan PM’s flower beds to allay nuclear safety fears

Fukushima Prefectural officers collect soil to check if it is contaminated by radioactive materials in 2011.
Fukushima Prefectural officers collect soil to check if it is contaminated by radioactive materials in 2011. Photograph: Tsuyoshi Yoshioka/AP

Slightly radioactive soil from near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be transported to Tokyo and used in flower beds in the prime minister’s garden, in an attempt to prove to a skeptical public that the material is safe.

The decision comes 14 years after the plant suffered a triple meltdown in the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chornobyl.

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