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A man who landed a small drone carrying slightly radioactive sand onto the roof of the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo has turned himself in to authorities:
Yasuo Yamamoto, 40, was protesting over the Japanese government's nuclear energy policy. He turned himself in late on Friday, police said. No-one was hurt. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was out of the country.
The drone landing triggered a security alert and raised fears of extremists using drones to carry out attacks. The small amount of sand in the drone - which was equipped with a small camera - carried traces of radiation. Police said the radioactive material was likely to be caesium but the levels were too low to be harmful to human health.
Yasuo Yamamoto said that he was protesting the restart of nuclear reactors across Japan. Prime Minister Abe is backing the restart of Japan's nuclear reactors, which have been offline since the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
Yamamoto claimed that the sand came from Fukushima Prefecture (福島県), and was carrying some of the sand and a drone controller when he surrendered himself to police. He faces a maximum of three years in prison if convicted of "obstruction of official business". The drone is said to be a DJI Phantom 2.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @04:57AM
Its about time that Shinzo Abe had a bit of radioactive water (or at least the illusion of it) on his doorstep. Fukushima continues to dump 100 tonnes of radioactive water per day into the pacific and te coverups and meager attempt to clean up the site point to the usual problem with nuclear power; private profits, public cost of clean up/waste management. Abe was brought in by the nuclear lobby to try and reboot their corrupt nuclear programme. Time to spend the money on large scale renewables.
May he have a fair day in court, but I doubt it.