Fukushima Nuclear Waste Bags Swept Away During Typhoon Hagibis: Reports

A masked protester stands in front of flags at the gates to the Hinkley Point nuclear power station to mark the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster in Japan near Bridgewater, England on March 10, 2012. Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Typhoon Hagibis’s historic rainfall in Japan swept away nuclear decontamination waste bags from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into a river.

Officials said that as Hagibis-triggered rainfall caused rivers to flood, bags filled with debris collected during the Fukushima decontamination efforts were swept into the Furumichi River after the facility was flooded, the Asahi Shimbun reported on Sunday.