"Cleanup crews in Fukushima Prefecture have dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers. Water sprayed on contaminated buildings has been allowed to drain back into the environment. And supervisors have instructed workers to ignore rules on proper collection and disposal of the radioactive waste.
Decontamination is considered a crucial process in enabling thousands of evacuees to return to their homes around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and resume their normal lives.
But the decontamination work witnessed by a team of Asahi Shimbun reporters shows that contractual rules with the Environment Ministry have been regularly and blatantly ignored, and in some cases, could violate environmental laws." The Asahi Shimbun
And Beyond Nuclear has to ask what this means for attempting to assess radiation exposure and its impact on populations of both humans and animals. If Fukushima contamination is spread around like this is anyone unexposed? And since unexposed people are used to determine radiation health impacts to exposed populations, will this make conventional methods of determining health impacts harder or impossible to use? This wanton disregard for the impact of radioctivity is extremely troubling and one more bit of proof that the nuclear industry should never be in charge of either clean up or health assessments.