It's been confirmed that when Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan last weekend... radioactive waste did go missing.<br />The bags that had contained the waste were washed away... and have now been found empty.<br />Our Choi Jeong-yoon has more.<br />Japanese media report that traces of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant have been found in various places following the season's strongest typhoon, Hagibis.<br />The Tokyo Shimbun reported Friday that ten bags that had contained radioactive waste were found empty along the Furumichi River, indicating that the contents had spilled out.<br />Those are understood to be some of the bags that the nearby city of Tamura said earlier this week were swept away by the storm's heavy rain.<br />Meanwhile, two other villages in Fukushima Prefecture, Kawauchi and Nihonmatsu, say they found a total of 33 bags downstream... and two of them were empty.<br />The Japanese government had collected about 30 million tons of radioactive debris after the nuclear disaster in March 2011.<br />The Tokyo Shimbun also pointed out that the authorities had not managed the nuclear waste facilities properly.<br />According to local media, four of the temporary storage units in Gunma and Fukushima Prefectures have been made inaccessible because of landslides and floods, so workers cannot even inspect them.<br />This isn't the first time something like this has happened.<br />In 2015, around 240 bags of contaminated waste from the Fukushima plant went missing in similar circumstances when the region was hit by torrential rain.<br />Choi Jeong-yoon, Arirang News.<br />
