Fukushima nuclear disaster: Tepco works to stop radioactive water leak into Pacific
- 11 years ago
Originally published on August 13, 2013
As highly radioactive water from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, the government is stepping in to help Tepco in the clean-up.
According to Reuters, 400 tons of groundwater are still flowing from the mountainside to the damaged Fukushima reactor basements daily.
"The newly acknowledged leak flowing from the plant 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo would be enough to fill an Olympic swimming pool in barely a week," Reuters reported.
Tepco, who began work to stem the leak on August 9, is planning and applying the following strategies: pumping underground water into a temporary storage tank and if no significant level of radiation is found release it into the sea at a rate of 100 tonnes a day; an underground ice wall obtained by freezing the soil and the surrounding water around the reactors to create a mile-long barrier; a steel barrier along the coastline scheduled to be completed by September 2014.
According to Reuters, "In the early weeks of the disaster, the Japanese government allowed Tepco to dump tens of thousands of tons of contaminated water into the Pacific in an emergency move.
"But the escalation of the long-running crisis raises the risk of an even longer and more expensive clean-up, which is already forecast to take more than 40 years and cost $11 billion."
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As highly radioactive water from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, the government is stepping in to help Tepco in the clean-up.
According to Reuters, 400 tons of groundwater are still flowing from the mountainside to the damaged Fukushima reactor basements daily.
"The newly acknowledged leak flowing from the plant 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo would be enough to fill an Olympic swimming pool in barely a week," Reuters reported.
Tepco, who began work to stem the leak on August 9, is planning and applying the following strategies: pumping underground water into a temporary storage tank and if no significant level of radiation is found release it into the sea at a rate of 100 tonnes a day; an underground ice wall obtained by freezing the soil and the surrounding water around the reactors to create a mile-long barrier; a steel barrier along the coastline scheduled to be completed by September 2014.
According to Reuters, "In the early weeks of the disaster, the Japanese government allowed Tepco to dump tens of thousands of tons of contaminated water into the Pacific in an emergency move.
"But the escalation of the long-running crisis raises the risk of an even longer and more expensive clean-up, which is already forecast to take more than 40 years and cost $11 billion."
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