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Rainwater overflows from Fukushima plant
Topic Started: 11 Sep 2015, 10:09 PM (27 Views)
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Rainwater overflows from Fukushima plant

Sep. 11, 2015

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has found that rainwater has intermittently overflowed a drainage channel and spilled directly into the sea.

This happened after the area was hit by the recent heavy rains.

Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Friday that it confirmed the leaks through video footage of the complex.

The operator said the leaks occurred at 3 AM, 5:20 AM and 6 AM on Friday -- for a total of more than 2 and a half hours.

TEPCO is now checking the radioactive levels of rainwater samples taken from the channel.

Radioactive rainwater was first found spilling into the sea from the channel in February.

As a stopgap measure, TEPCO built a barrier at the channel's far end to pump up water before it reached the sea.

The channel repeatedly floods during heavy rains.

Work to reroute the drainage channel so that the rainwater does not leak outside the plant's port, which began in May, has yet to be completed.

Source: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
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Black plastic bags containing irradiated soil, leaves and debris from the decontamination operation are dumped at a seaside in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, near Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in February. | REUTERS

Flooding swept away radiation cleanup bags in Fukushima

JIJI
SEP 12, 2015

Bags filled with grass and soil from work to remove radioactive substances spewed by the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant were swept away in the flooding of rivers in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, the Environment Ministry said.

A total of 82 of the bags were discovered, with 37 of them recovered Friday, though it remained unclear how many had been washed away, the ministry said.

Scores of 1,000-liter bags were used during the cleanup work, mainly to store surface soil that had been contaminated from the release at the plant, which was heavily damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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