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.
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.
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.