The small sandy square in front of Yasushi Takemoto's apartment in Koriyama, a city of 328,000 about 150 miles north of Tokyo,
looks like a normal public park. On a recent weekday morning, a group
of children played on the swings while the retired dentistry professor
strolled under the trees.
Beneath the soil in one unmarked, unfenced corner, however, lie
hundreds of bags packed with radioactive dirt, sludge from drainage
ditches, and other contaminated debris.
The waste was collected from around the neighborhood last November by citizens trying to reduce radiation from the meltdowns earlier that year at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, about 37 miles to the east.
They
packed the debris into bags, buried them about six feet deep between
layers of plastic sheets, and covered them with soil – all with the
approval of city officials.
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