Radioactive soil near Tokyo

Radioactive soil near Tokyo

KASHIWA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area covered by a plastic sheet where a high level of radioactive cesium has been detected in the soil in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, 2011. A science ministry official, after inspecting the site the same day, said the radioactive cesium is likely to have originated in rainwater contaminated with fallout from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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