The first batch of rubble from Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, arrived in Tokyo on Saturday under an agreement to help the town dispose of 100,000 tons of potentially radioactive tsunami debris by March 2014.
Before jumping into the full-fledged transfer of some 50 tons of rubble per day in February, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to incinerate about 140 tons in a test run Tuesday to check the radioactive intensity of the resulting ash and exhaust gases.
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How responsible is it to incinerate 140 tons of rubble to “test” the radioactive intensity of the ashes?