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Posted: 01 Oct 2013 06:19 AM
PDT
Tokyo Electric, the operator of
the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has submitted a new plan
for handling and discharging contaminated rainwater into the Pacific
Ocean. Last month, after a tropical storm hit the site, workers found that
the accumulated rainwater had become radioactive, but the operator had no
criteria for how to handle it.
In the new proposal submitted
to the Nuclear Regulation Authority, TEPCO will collect the water in a
individual tank, and once the rainwater has been diluted to under 10
becquerels of beta-ray emitting radionuclides, will discharge it into the
ocean. This proposal is not expected to go over well with the people of
Japan and the local fisherman, who generally feel that the NRA needs to take
a more proactive approach to handling the disaster. In its’ first
year of operation, the NRA has handled the situation as if they could
establish new rules and standards and the public would immediately cast their
trust back upon them, but that hasn’t been the case so far.
In related news, for the last
two years, TEPCO has been playing a complicated game of chess with the
contaminated water piling up on site – pumping hundreds of tons of water a
day through the reactor buildings and storing them in radioactive wastewater
tanks above ground. Around 11:50 am on the morning of October 1st,
more than four tons of radioactive water spilled out of a tank during these
water transfer operations. TEPCO did not announce how much radioactive
materials were in the water, or what kind.
Source: NHK
Source: JiJi Press
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