The bomb was discovered by workers here on the premises of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant AFP/STR
An unexploded bomb belonging to the era of the World War II has been found intact at a Japanese nuclear plant. An official has revealed that some workers at Japan’s crippled
Fukushima nuclear plant, on Thursday discovered a suspected World War II
bomb Thursday at the premises of the plant.
The police has been called in to investigate.
According to a report by the Agence France Presse, AFP, the
85-centimetre (2.9 foot) long object, believed to be an unexploded bomb
dropped by the United States during the war, was discovered by workers
constructing a parking lot close to the facility’s reactors, a spokesman
for Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said.
TEPCO called police immediately upon finding the object, suspending
construction work and roping off the area around one kilometre (0.62
mile) from the reactors, he added.
There was no impact on ongoing decommissioning operations at the
nuclear plant, which suffered meltdowns in March 2011 after a powerful
earthquake spawned a huge tsunami.
Japan’s Jiji Press reported that under such circumstances police call in bomb disposal experts from Japan’s military.
Unexploded US bombs and shells are still occasionally found in
Japan more than 70 years after the conflict ended in 1945, particularly
on the southern island of Okinawa where an extremely bloody battle took
place in the war’s closing months.
A Japanese military airport existed in the area around the
Fukushima site in northeastern Japan during the war, and the area was a
target of US bombing raids.
The meltdowns at Fukushima in 2011 were the world’s worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
TEPCO and the government are facing a four-decade task of cleaning
up and decommissioning the facility, while tens of thousands of people
remain displaced, the majority from Fukushima prefecture due to high
radiation.
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