{"id":72012,"date":"2025-05-28T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/28\/fukushima-radioactive-soil-japan-pm-garden"},"modified":"2025-05-28T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:01:35","slug":"fukushima-soil-headed-to-japan-pms-flower-beds-to-allay-nuclear-safety-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72012","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima soil headed to Japan PM\u2019s flower beds to allay nuclear safety fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has suggested the material, which it describes as low risk, could also be used in roads and infrastructure in other parts of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly radioactive soil from near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be transported to Tokyo and used in flower beds in the prime minister\u2019s garden, in an attempt to prove to a skeptical public that the material is safe.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/sep\/08\/japan-nuclear-disaster-fukushima-homes\">14 years after the plant suffered a triple meltdown<\/a> in the world\u2019s worst nuclear accident since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster\">Chornobyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/28\/fukushima-radioactive-soil-japan-pm-garden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has suggested the material, which it describes as low risk, could also be used in roads and infrastructure in other parts of Japan.Slightly radioactive soil from near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be transported &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,980,88,570],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-fukushima","category-japan","category-nuclear-power"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72012\/revisions\/72013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}