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Posted: 29 Jul 2014 06:14 AM
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TEPCO officials have admitted
that groundwater bypass operations are failing to reduce tons of water from
entering the crippled reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power plant.
According to TEPCO, at least
400 tons of groundwater flow into reactor buildings each day where it comes
into contact with extremely contaminated materials.
The utility announced that its
groundwater bypass operations would reduce the amount of groundwater by up to
100 tons per day and began pumping operations in May in hopes of extracting
groundwater before it entered reactor buildings and redirecting it into the
Pacific Ocean.
At a news conference on Monday,
Teruaki Kobayashi, a TEPCO official told reporters that two months after
beginning pumping operations the utility has yet to see any real effect from
the operation on water levels in the reactor buildings.
TEPCO says they don’t know
when, if ever, the pumping operations will have any tangible effect on
groundwater levels.
In June, TEPCO was also forced
to admit that it’s ‘ice wall’ operation, which was also intended to control
groundwater flow, was also unsuccessful. After two
months of pumping calcium chloride into the ground near the Unit 2 reactor,
officials announced that they weren’t able to get the water to freeze to form
the ice wall.
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groundwater bypass operations not having effect at Fukushima Daiichi
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