Highly contaminated water leaking from the Central Waste Processing Facility at Fukushima nuclear plant
By arevamirpal::laprimavera
25 May 2011 Remember TEPCO has been transporting the highly radioactive water from the turbine buildings to the basement of one of the buildings of the Central Waste Processing Facility after they said they had leak-proofed the Facility? Leak-proof? Not so. The water level at the building dropped 5 centimeters, TEPCO announced on May 26, and that’s equivalent of 50 tonnes of water. But TEPCO also assures us that it is not leaking outside the building. As the article below says, the Reactor 3’s turbine building alone has 22,000 tonnes of highly contaminated water. The transfer to this particular building of the Central Waste Processing Facility only reduced that amount by 3,660 tonnes. TEPCO claims AREVA’s water processing facility will be ready in June and that will solve all kinds of problems. The cost of processing the contaminated water allegedly demanded by AREVA is 200 million yen (US$2.44 million) per tonne. (More about the shady AREVA contract later.) All kinds of other solutions like “water entombment” were going to solve all kinds of problems, until TEPCO had to reveal that both the RPV and the Containment Vessel had holes. From Mainichi Shinbun Japanese (11:25AM JST 5/26/2011):東京電力は２６日、福島第１原発３号機のタービン建屋から移送した汚染水の受け入れ施設で、１日で約５センチの水位の低下が見つかったと発表した。周辺地下水の分析結果に変動がないことから、東電は「施設から外に漏れだしている可能性は低い」と説明している。 TEPCO announced on May 26 that the facility that received the contaminated water from the Reactor 3 turbine building at Fukushima I Nuke Plant saw the water level at the facility dropped by 5 centimeters in one day. The analysis of the ground water around the facility didn’t show a marked increase in radioactive materials, which led TEPCO to conclude that it was unlikely that the contaminated water had leaked from the facility. …
