Tokyo, Oct 11 (ANI): A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has travelled to areas near Japan's radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power to monitor the nation's decontamination efforts.
The team, Headed by Juan Carlos Lentijo, General Director for Radiation Protection at Spain's nuclear regulatory authority, inspected an elementary school in the city of Date where work has already been done to remove radioactive substances, the Japan Times reports.
When asked by one of the team members whether the low-radioactive waste from the decontamination work could be disposed of as ordinary waste, the mayor Shoji Nishida said the city is having difficulty handling waste that includes radioactive materials, as there is no legal framework that stipulates how to dispose of it.
The team also inspected the town of Ryozen, where some households have been designated as government evacuation advisory sites due to high radiation contamination.
It also paid a visit to village of Iitate where demonstration experiments on farmland are being conducted.
The team members arrived in Japan on Friday and will stay in the country until October 15.
They will visit several locations in Fukushima Prefecture, including the Fukushima plant, crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (ANI)
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