when Japan was struck over the weekend
by typhoon huggy bees apparently
failures in the management of the
nuclear plant in Fukushima seem to have
caused some radioactive waste to go
missing our own Ji Young has more the
powerful typhoon Huggy 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
and 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
27 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 banks contain
radioactive grass trees and other
material that had been gathered during
decontamination work at the site 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 leaking from the plant however
the official said the alerts were due to
a malfunction in the system on ji-yong
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