projet pilote sur une autoroute nationale qui traverse la zone

Le ministère japonais de l'Environnement a dévoilé un projet pilote, visant à décontaminer des sections fortement irradiées autour de la centrale Fukushima Dai-ichi.

Au cours d'essais en vue d'un nettoyage plus étendu, le ministère va tenter de décontaminer trois tronçons actuellement fermés d'une autoroute nationale qui traverse la zone où l'entrée est interdite près de la centrale sinistrée.

Japan's Environment Ministry has unveiled a model project designed to decontaminate areas with high levels of radiation around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.In a test-run for a wider clean-up, the ministry will first try to decontaminate 3 closed sections of a national expressway running through the no-entry zone near the plant.The ministry last week announced a 2-year plan to decontaminate by March 2014 some evacuation zones where radiation levels have dropped below 50 millisieverts per year.Radiation levels over a total 5 kilometers of expressway slated for the new project have ranged from a little to substantially above 50 millisieverts a year.The ministry plans to assess the project's effectiveness in a test-run from the middle of March through July.