Japan: Tainted water storage soon to reach capacity at Fukushima plant

Japan Today ^ | 05/23/11

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Tainted water storage soon to reach capacity at Fukushima plant

Monday 23rd May, 03:00 PM JST

TOKYO —

A nuclear waste disposal facility at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant will be filled up in several days with radioactive floodwater diverted from near its No. 2 and 3 reactors, officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant’s operator, said Monday.

TEPCO plans to suspend the diversion until the middle of June once the facility becomes filled with the contaminated water, to wait for a new water treatment facility to begin operating.

While a temporary storage tank is also being prepared, its installation would take until around early July, according to the officials.

With the amount of contaminated water expected to increase from continuing leaks from crippled reactors and the inflow of rainwater as the rainy season sets in, the operator is likely to face a greater amount of contaminated water that has nowhere to go, possibly posing another challenge to stabilization work at the plant.

But Hidehiko Nishiyama, spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, indicated Monday that it is unlikely to be a problem, telling a news conference that once the storage space reaches full capacity, the tainted water will be kept where it is for the time being to the extent that it will not overflow.

The waste disposal facility consists of four buildings. The operator, known as TEPCO, has planned to use two of them that underwent work for water tightness as storage space for the contaminated water, with about 10,000 tons of it being planned to be transferred from an underground tunnel near the No. 2 reactor.

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The great Pacific Ocean is about to get another dose of zesty radioactive water. :-)

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P!

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The solution to pollution is dilution.

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Well pre-cooking our seafood this way saves time....