Radiation cleanup work begins in Fukushima nuclear plant town

Radiation cleanup work began Monday in Futaba to make the town that co-hosts the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant inhabitable again by around spring 2022 under a government-led reconstruction project.Cleanup work has been carried out in areas contaminated with radioactive substances released from the nuclear plant in the aftermath of the March 2011 huge earthquake and tsunami, with the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. being responsible for the cost.But the latest work in Futaba is the first of the government-led project to make areas designated as sp…READ FULL ARTICLE