Radiation
The village of Ramsås near Härnösand was among Sweden's worst-hit areas by Chernobyl fallout in 1986. Residents like Arne Nyback and Birgitta Öman recall how daily life changed overnight with food restrictions and radiation fears. Forty years on, traces remain.
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Japan's Environment Ministry plans to launch full-scale efforts to recycle soil collected during decontamination work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the 2011 meltdown. The ministry seeks to reuse soil with low levels of radioactive contamination from areas polluted by the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' facility. It began using the soil in the front garden of the Prime Minister's Office and flower beds at central government offices in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district last year.