Tabuchi, H. (2012, Feb 10). A Confused Nuclear Cleanup. The New York Times:
"Clean
up workers: [excerpted] “We are all amateurs,” he said. “Nobody really knows
how to clean up radiation.”
Nobody
may really know how. But that has not deterred the Japanese government from
starting to hand out an initial $13 billion in contracts meant to rehabilitate
the more than 8,000-square-mile region most exposed to radioactive fallout — an
area nearly as big as New Jersey….
Even more disturbing to critics of the decontamination program is the
fact that the government awarded the first contracts to three giant
construction companies — corporations that have no more expertise in radiation
cleanup than anyone else does, but that profited hugely from Japan’s previous
embrace of nuclear power….” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/business/global/after-fukushima-disaster-a-confused-effort-at-cleanup.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha25
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