The construction of an undersea tunnel to discharge contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is expected to be completed on June 22.
According to the KFB Fukushima Broadcasting on the 24th, TEPCO is constructing an undersea tunnel 1km off the coast to discharge contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the sea, in which radioactive materials are diluted with seawater.
There is still work to dig out the exit part of the tunnel that has been hardened with concrete, but it is expected to be completed within a few days.
TEPCO plans to complete the tunnel construction by the end of June after the excavation work is completed.
Meanwhile, according to Kyodo News on the 22nd, there is a high possibility that radioactively contaminated water will be released after July.
Employees wearing protective suits and masks work on the top of Unit 4 of the Unit 4 building of the Fukushima Prefecture Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. 2012.02.20 ⓒAFP=News1The problem is that the pipe that produces the polluted water has not yet been removed.
According to NHK on the 23rd, TEPCO has been working on removing pipes from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which were contaminated with high concentrations of radioactive material during the 2011 nuclear power plant accident, for more than a year since March last year.
In other words, radioactive materials are continuously generated inside, but only the floodgates that let them out are broken.
TEPCO announced that it would remove the 97-meter section, which is a problem with piping work, by the end of May.
Source: Donga
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