the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan
in decades has left in more than 30
people dead in nineteen missing as
typhoon hajime's moved in a northerly
direction before exiting the island
nation late Sunday it left a trail of
destruction including the nuclear
stricken prefecture of Fukushima what's
alarming bags containing waste materials
generated during a decontamination work
in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
plant found in the nearby river our
immune son has a top story this morning
the seasons 19th typhoon Huckabees
slammed into Japan over the weekend
causing dozens of casualties and leaving
many regions flooded harvests also swept
across Fukushima home to the nuclear
plant that meltdown following the 2011
earthquake and tsunami
according to Japanese media the city of
Tamura in Fukushima Prefecture said
Sunday there an unknown number of bags
containing contaminated waste from the
plant or lost
officials say heavy rains carry the bags
to the nearby flume its river that river
connects to another river and flows into
the Pacific Ocean the city retrieved 10
bags from the river but they haven't
been able to confirm how many went
missing out of the more than 2,600 bags
kept in a temporary storage it's bag
weights between 700 kilograms and 1.3
tones they contain grass and wood
collected from areas that were heavily
contaminated by radiation
city officials insist contaminated waste
did not leak out of the bags and they
will carefully check the storage and
management record however this isn't the
first time something like this has
happened in 2015 contaminated waste from
the Fukushima plant went missing in
similar circumstances when the region
was hit by torrential downpours Imazon
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