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Taking Out the Trash: Many roadside areas in the evacuation zone have been decontaminated, but it’s impossible to scrape the top layer of soil from all of Fukushima’s hills. Even the limited cleanup poses big storage problems. Bags of contaminated dirt are a common sight along the roads of Fukushima, as the government is still trying to decide on a long-term storage solution.
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Eliza Strickland
Eliza Strickland is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum, where she covers AI, biomedical engineering, and other topics. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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