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Published November 04, 2011, 12:00 AM

Pile of protective clothing


Plastic bags, containing protective clothing used by workers battling the nuclear disaster at TEPCO's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, are piled up in a roofed soccer training ground in the J-Village, an athlete's village now serves as base camp for the workers, in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2011. TEPCO has not yet decided measure to dispose these low-level radioactive waste properly. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
Read the article: Radioactive waste disposal presents growing crisis for Japan