Japan's Billion-Dollar Plan to Store Its Contaminated Fukushima Dirt gizmodo.com

As the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has passed, Japan is faced with another conundrum: Where to store thousands of tons of radioactive soil that have been harvested from around the region.
This week, officials unveiled a $970 million plan to build a massive storage facility to house the stuff.
The plan was recommended by a long-running government panel, which suggested building the storage facilities in one of three nearby towns—Futaba, Okuma and Naraha—at a cost of almost a billion dollars.
These storage facilities would allow Japan's government to effectively buy back that real estate—letting people move on with their lives.
At the same time, plenty of people who have returned to their homes are dealing with radioactive soil in their own backyards—literally.