But a new problem has emerged: how to dispose of contaminated soil. Only a small percentage of the contaminated soil in Fukushima Prefecture has been placed in transitional storage facilities.

But there are still some areas off limits due to the radiation levels. And as contaminated soil piles up, former residents are wondering when, or if, they will go back. The cleanup work started ...

Many of the temporary storage sites for soil and waste contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are located in areas vulnerable to natural disasters ...

The Council of the EU (council of ministers) and the European Parliament have reached an agreement on a new soil monitoring ...

FUKUSHIMA—Futaba Mayor Shiro Izawa on Feb. 24 suggested reusing soil contaminated by the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant for public works projects within his town.

Lafarge Canada is planning to open a soil-washing facility in Burnaby this summer that could treat all of Metro Vancouver’s contaminated soil. According to a statement on LinkedIn from a Lafarge ...

The firm, 9670 Southwest Marine Way LLC ... clean up and develop the 8-acre site at that address. Soil and groundwater at the site are contaminated, according to The Goldstein Environmental ...

HANOI, Vietnam — At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military’s ...