Articles by Jason Clenfield, Bloomberg

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Fukushima Toxic Waste Swells as Japan Marks March 11 Disaster: 2 Years
Jason Clenfield, Bloomberg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2013

Every morning, 3,000 cleanup workers at Fukushima don hooded hazard suits, air-filtered face masks and multiple glove layers. Most of the gear is radioactive waste by day’s end. Multiply it by 730 days since the tsunami two years ago and the trash could fill six Olympic swimming pools. Contaminated clothing represents just a fraction of the waste in a cleanup that may take four decades.

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