Nuclear plant in Japan hit by earthquake emptied up their radioactive room to store more highly radioactive water recently leaking at the site, by dumping water of low contamination level into the sea.
It is said that Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, one of the damaged nuclear plants in Japan, will release about 11,500 tons of water into the sea, which would greatly help storing water with higher level of radioactivity leaking from its No.2 reactor.
Searching the paths of these leaks and finding solutions are still continuing.
A 20cm (8in) crack in the concrete pit at the No.2 reactor was said as the cause of the leak. Workers first attempted to stop the leak by using a highly absorbent polymer but unfortunately they failed. After such failure, workers of the plant trace the route of the water using dye.
For more than three weeks, Tepco, the nuke operator, was trying to regain its control at the plant after the cooling systems shut down, due to damages done by huge earthquake and tsunami.
Workers must keep their eye on the reactors to avoid them overheating. They must remain these reactors filled with water to lessen such problem, but then they are dealt with this as the volume of waste water accumulates. But they don’t have any other choice.
“We are already aware that the water at the No.2 unit is highly radiated,” said Top government spokesman Yukio Edano.
“So as to prioritize to stop the leakage of this water into the sea, we will release the water stored in the exterior building of the unit, which also unfortunately contains radioactivity but far lower than the highly contaminated water,” he added.
Although they have these methods to keep these reactors in its condition, but for Mr. Edano as he said earlier, stopping the leak from reactor No.2 remains the priority.
Tepco says they will try to block the flow of radioactive water by injecting the polymer again until the path of the leak is found.
