Sentences with phrase «store radioactive water»

A nuclear waste disposal facility being used to store radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant will soon be full, Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials said Monday.

If another earthquake causes another tsunami, all the stored radioactive water could be released into the ocean and the containment buildings could be left in even much worse shape than they were after the first hit.

Not exact matches

You can wash off the contamination with soap and water — the traditional method — but that creates sizable reservoirs of radioactive runoff, which in turn has to be trapped, treated, and stored away for centuries.

At present, TEPCO is storing more than 300,000 tons of radioactive water on the site of the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The pools — water - filled basins that store and cool used radioactive fuel rods — are so densely packed with nuclear waste that a fire could release enough radioactive material to contaminate an area twice the size of New Jersey.

After filtering to remove radioactive caesium, Tepco stores the water — huge volumes of it — in 1060 tanks, each holding up to 1000 tonnes.

The Japanese utility TEPCO, which went bankrupt and was bailed out at huge cost by the people of Japan, continues to pump out very radioactive water, to be stored in an ever - increasing vast tank farm on the site.

«About 200,000 tons of radioactive water — enough to fill more than 50 Olympic - sized swimming pools — are being stored in hundreds of gigantic tanks built around the Fukushima Daiichi plant.