Waste to be Treated by the National Government under the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Handling of Environment Pollution by Radioactive Materials

At present, the area extending over 10 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture is designated as an Area for Contaminated Waste Countermeasures (an area designated by the Minister of the Environment as an area in which the national government needs to take charge of the collection, transport, storage and disposal of waste located therein; meaning the same as a Special Decontamination Area). Waste discharged from this area is being treated by the Ministry of the Environment as waste from the countermeasure area.

Waste contaminated with radioactive materials derived from the accident whose radioactivity concentration exceeds 8,000 Bq/kg is to be treated as designated waste by an appropriate method under the responsibility of the national government.

• Included in this reference material on March 31, 2023