11,500 tons of radioactive water will be dumped into Pacific
Posted by JAC on 4/4/2011, 6:44 am
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/04/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html#


Tokyo (CNN) -- About 11,500 tons of radioactive water that has collected at the crippled Fukishima Daiichi nuclear facility will be dumped into the Pacific Ocean, officials said Monday, as workers prioritize dealing with a crack that has been a conduit for contamination.

These are the latest, but hardly the only challenges facing workers at the embattled power plant and its six reactors, which have been in constant crisis since last month's ruinous earthquake and tsunami.

Officials with the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which runs the plant, proposed Monday afternoon releasing excess water that has pooled in and around the Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6 reactors into the sea. But most of the dumped water -- 10,000 tons -- will come from the plant's central waste treatment facility, which will then be used to store highly radioactive water from the No. 2 unit, an official with the power company said.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano called the dumping "unavoidable," even though this liquid was most likely contaminated in the process of trying to cool nuclear fuel rods.

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