Japan blocked the leak of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean

The Fukushima I plant operating agency today said it had blocked a leak of highly contaminated radioactive water into the sea, while the government confirmed the plan to cover the plant was devastated by a special cover to be lost. months to complete.

Japanese news agency Jiji Press quoted Tokyo Power Agency (Tepco) officials as saying the radioactive water of the nuclear plant devastated by the 11/3 disaster has stopped leaking into the Pacific Ocean .

Yesterday, TEPCO pumped the sodium silicate solution to harden the soil near the leak. This crack is in Fukushima I's No. 2 reactor, where the cooling system has been shut down since the March 11 disaster.

The plan to cover the plant was devastated by special coverings that could not be done quickly.

Before that, all attempts to block this leak were unsuccessful.

On April 4, Japan began to release radioactive contaminated water at the Fukushima nuclear plant to the Pacific, confirming that the water is only slightly contaminated, so it does not harm marine organisms. Water discharge plan is expected to last 5 days.

The Japanese side announced ' there is no other solution but to discharge 11,500 tons of light contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean '. TEPCO has no room to store water with higher levels of contamination.

To limit the discharge of contaminated water to the sea, TEPCO has asked Russia to provide them with a floating plant, which deals with radioactive water. One of these factories is located in Vladivostock, Russia's Far East, specializing in 'detoxification' for Russian nuclear submarines.

The work of discharging water will last for 5 days, but immediately, South Korea has expressed concern about the risk that its fishing industry may be damaged by sea water contamination.

South Korea questioned Tokyo about the decision to pump more than a dozen thousand tons of radioactive water at the Fukushima plant to the sea. As the country next to Japan, Korea is worried about being affected.

According to Cho Byung Jae, a South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, their embassy in Tokyo asked the Japanese Foreign Ministry to explain the discharge. According to Cho Byung Jae, because it is a country contaminated with nuclear radiation, Korea needs to have Japan provide more scientific data about this.

On the mainland, Fukushima Prefecture is measuring radioactivity at more than a thousand parks, kindergartens or school grounds in the region. Parents are increasingly concerned that the rate of radiation can harm their children's health.

But independent Japanese nuclear experts were not concerned with the two dangers: first of all, an explosion similar to a volcano under the pressure of steam accumulating more and more in six kilns. Nuclear at Fukushima, and then the nuclear fuel rods have started to melt.

Meanwhile, according to the latest statement from the Japanese government, plans to cover plants destroyed by special coverings to prevent radioactive leakage cannot be done quickly, as soon as possible. deployed in September, due to high levels of radiation hindering on-site work.