so typhoon huggy was struck Japan over
the weekend and apparent failures in the
management of the damaged Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant seemed to
have caused a radioactive waste to be
swept away our own Ji Young has more the
powerful typhoon hoggie base hit Japan
over the weekend affecting large parts
of the country including Fukushima
Prefecture the site of the 2011 nuclear
disaster thousands of bags containing
radioactive waste generated during
decontamination work at the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant were swept
away by heavy precipitation last weekend
and many of them are still missing
according to Japan's public broadcaster
NHK officials from the city of Tamura in
Fukushima Prefecture said on Sunday that
an unknown number of bags filled with
contaminated waste were lost only 10 of
the bags were retrieved and some
twenty-seven hundred bags remain
unaccounted for city officials say they
cannot keep track of the missing bags
there are roughly 95 similar storage
facilities in Tamura City the lost bags
contain radioactive grass trees and
other material that had been gathered
during decontamination work on the side
of Fukushima Daiichi power plant the
bags of radioactive waste were most
likely swept into a nearby river which
eventually flows into the Pacific Ocean
local media claimed that no particular
safety measures were in place even
though record-breaking precipitation by
the typhoon had been projected there are
also reports that alerts were issued
eight times at the Fukushima Daiichi
power plant warning that radioactive
water was seeking from the plant however
the official said the alerts were due to
a malfunction in the system on ji-yong
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