Radioactive water seeping
from Fukushima No.1 tank 30 Sep 2013 Tokyo Electric
Power Co. has confirmed that radioactive water is seeping through a joint of one
of the tanks that store low-level radioactive water at its Fukushima No.1
nuclear power plant. The tank is located near the No. 6 reactor at the stricken
plant, TEPCO said late Saturday night. Workers of another firm detected the
seeping water at about 10:45 p.m. while patrolling the tank area, the company
said.
Plastic pad clogs Fukushima
radiation cleaning system 29 Sep 2013 A piece of
plastic padding which clogged up a drain is thought to have caused the breakdown
of a decontamination system at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the
operator said Sunday. The Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), designed to
remove radioactive material from contaminated water, is expected to play a
crucial role in treating huge amounts of toxic water accumulating at the plant.
But it was halted due to a defect only hours after starting operations. Workers
found that a plastic pad, which fixed a ladder in the system, had worked loose
and got stuck in a drain, probably causing the defect, said operator Tokyo
Electric Power Co.
Bad weather damages silt
fence, built to contain radiation, at Fukushima No. 1
plant --It is thought that large amounts of
radioactive materials have already drifted into Pacific 26 Sep 2013 Bad
weather has damaged a silt fence erected to contain radioactive material
escaping from the crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Tokyo
Electric Power Co. said Thursday, raising fears that more tainted water might
flow into the Pacific Ocean. The breach was found at 10:40 a.m. Thursday near
intact reactors 5 and 6, which take in core-cooling seawater that is later
pumped back into the ocean. ...The fence is also designed to block radioactive
material coming from damaged units 1, 2, 3 and 4, where another silt fence is
set up.
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