Used Radiation Suits Pile Up In Fukushima
Bags of used plastic radiation suits are piling up at the J-Village command center near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant:
About 2,000 people are working at the nuclear power plant each day. When they finish their work shifts, masks are piled up to have filters changed and plastic suits are thrown away.
Because the suits are probably contaminated with low levels of radiation, they cannot be sent to normal waste disposal facilities. Fukushima Daiichi has a building that would handle such waste disposal, but it is currently being used for the clean-up for radioactive water. For the meantime, those plastic bags are going to keep on piling up.
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