Crushed radiation-tainted stone quarried near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was used to build 60 houses and condominium buildings in Fukushima Prefecture.
The number could climb to over 100 if more studies on the crushed stone, which was shipped from a quarry in Namie, are conducted, government sources said Sunday.
The quarry shipped 5,725 tons of stone between the March 11 start of the triple-meltdown crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami, and the time in April when the government designated Namie as part of the nuclear exclusion zone. (Japan Times)
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