Super barges to save Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on May 15 that the Megafload barge, which had a mission to store contaminated water, had left Yokokama port to the port of Konahama in Fukushima.

Megafload super-barges are leaving Yokohama to Fukushima 1 to carry out the mission of "rescuing" 10,000 tons of contaminated water. (Source : Internet ).

Expected at the end of this May, this super barge will be present at Fukushima Factory No. 1. Super Megafload barges with a width of 46m and a length of 136m are dubbed the " floating island of steel" with the ability to resist leakage. water thanks to the internal surface with special anti-corrosion structure and the most modern water pump system today. Expected, Megafload will be used to preserve a part of low-concentration radioactive water, about 10,000 tons, found in the basement of Fukushima Factory No. 1.

On the same day, a source from TEPCO said the data collected on March 11 from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 showed high levels of radioactivity in a building containing a nuclear reactor demonstrating devices. it may have been damaged by the 9-magnitude earthquake on March 11, not the subsequent tsunami that caused power outages, leading to a failure of the reactor's cooling function.