First batch of Miyagi tsunami debris arrives in Tokyo
The first batch of rubble from Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, arrived in Tokyo on Saturday under an agreement to help the town dispose of 100,000 tons of potentially radioactive tsunami debris by March 2014.
Before jumping into the full-fledged transfer of some 50 tons of rubble per day in February, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to incinerate about 140 tons in a test run Tuesday to check the radioactive intensity of the resulting ash and exhaust gases.
In the first batch, 20 containers with about 30 tons of wood and other combustible waste arrived on a train at Tokyo Freight Terminal in Shinagawa Ward to be trucked to a waste disposal facility in Ota Ward.
A Shinagawa plant is to conduct a similar test run this month.
The radiation levels of the debris containers was confirmed to be below the government-set limit by checks carried out in Miyagi Prefecture
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