No. 1 plant radioactive water leak kept ashore
No. 1 plant radioactive water leak kept ashore
Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it found that about 10 liters of water containing radioactive strontium leaked from a water processing facility at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant but it did not flow into the Pacific Ocean.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ordered Tepco on Tuesday to take measures to prevent a recurrence and consider moving up the schedule for installing a facility for removing radioactive substances such as strontium from water, a difficult process for the existing facility.
Tepco said earlier it plans to install the "multi-nuclide removal facility" sometime in 2012.
Liquid was found at around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday dripping from a tank storing salt water, which is created in the process of decontaminating highly polluted water accumulating at the plant, according to Tepco and NISA officials. The water leaked after undergoing a process for removing radioactive cesium.
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