Garbage Bags Of Contaminated Dirt And Leaves Are Dumped Near Roads In Fukushima Cleanup Effort

After a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, officials promised to use cutting-edge technology from across the globe to mount the most ambitious radiological cleanup humanity has ever seen. But it appears that the $11.5 billion, multi-decade effort has become part of the nuclear disaster. Hiroko Tabuchi of The New York Times reports that after 22 months, much of Japan's post-Fukushima cleanup remains primitive and haphazard as crews place contaminated soil an...