Tepco is planning to discharge contaminated water again

cold culvert with discharge - NOT in Fukushima
cold culvert with discharge - NOT in Fukushima

March again.

Tepco is planning to discharge highly contaminated water to pacific ocean next March (2012).

Currently, 200 ~ 500 tons of underground water flows into the buildings of reactors 1 ~ 4 and they can not handle it.

They are going to build another tank by the end of this year, but it is not enough.

Tepco knew this fact that they will have contaminated water overflow next March but they did not take any action for that.

They state they will discharge it after purifying it but the water purifying system has not even been built yet.

Mr. Hattori Ikuhiro, the chairman of National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations protests against their discharging.

(Source, Source, Source)

東電、汚染水の海洋放出を検討=低濃度処理、来年3月にも―全漁連が抗議
時事通信 12月8日(木)12時3分配信
東京電力が福島第1原発1~4号機のタービン建屋などにたまった高濃度汚染水を、原子炉等規制法が定める基準値以下のレベルに下げた上で、海洋に放出することを検討していることが8日、分かった。同社によると、来年3月上旬に滞留水が現行のタンク容量を超える可能性があるためで、経済産業省原子力安全・保安院に提出する中長期の施設運営計画に盛り込む方針という。
同日東電を訪れた全国漁業協同組合連合会の服部郁弘会長らが明らかにした。東電は「まだ実際に放出するかどうかは決めていない」としている。
東電の松本純一原子力・立地本部長代理によると、福島第1原発では現在、地下水の流入により、1日当たり200~500トンとされる滞留水が生まれている。現在のタンク増設は年内に終了する予定で、高濃度汚染水を基準値以下に浄化するシステムを検討している段階という。
松本代理は「放出する際には、諸外国にもきちんと説明したい。施設運営計画に具体的にどのように盛り込むかはまだ検討中」と述べた。
服部会長は東電に対し、「4月4日の汚染水放出は国際社会の痛烈な批判を浴び、国内でも水産物の安全に対する不安をかき立て、漁業者を苦しめている。二度と流させないという申し入れを無視した計画書の提出は決して許されない」と強く抗議。対応した西沢俊夫社長は「(なるべく)海への流出がないよう努めたい」と話した。

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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