Japan: More than 1000 tons of contaminated water flows into the sea

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates the Fukushima nuclear power plant, on September 17, said it poured out into the Pacific a total of 1,130 tons of rainwater accumulated in the factory on 16 / 9 after a storm.

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According to TEPCO, the amount of rainwater has accumulated inside the barricade area erected around the plant's radioactive water tanks, but the radioactive concentration in this rainwater is below the allowed threshold, yes. discharge into the sea.

TEPCO says the fences are erected to prevent the possibility of radioactive water leaking from the escaping tanks. However, when the storm came, the amount of rainwater inside the barriers threatened to overflow into radioactive water tanks.

Measuring high radioactivity at Fukushima power plant.(Source: AFP / VNA)

To solve this problem, TEPCO has released the rainwater out by opening some valves mounted on the retaining wall.

TEPCO claims that the amount of water emitted with the highest radiation level is only 24 becquerel / l, which is lower than the permitted level of 30 becquerel / l.

TEPCO is also committed to discovering the amount of radioactive water that is close to or exceeding the threshold, the company will remain in storage tanks instead of discharging it.

Since the Fukushima nuclear power plant was damaged in the earthquake-tsunami double disaster in March 2011, a large number of radioactive water tanks have been built up so far and this number continues to rise. When it is still necessary to use water daily to cool the melted nuclear reactors.

Under the plan, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on September 19 will visit the factory to check the treatment of radioactive water.