Worst spill in 6 months at Japanese nuclear plant
Around 100 tons of powerful radioactive water drained from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant according to the operator, mentioning it the most severe spill at the factory in six months.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company operator added that the said spill was found out Wednesday and stopped on Thursday, occurred far enough from the riverside of the plant that none of the radioactive water was probably to reach the Pacific Ocean, as has occurred the time of some past spills.
However, the occurrence was a painful warning of the many setbacks that have caused continual trouble the action of keeping something harmful under control and cleanup operations at the plant as well as the hundreds of tons of polluted groundwater that still drift unchecked into the Pacific every day.
The water spill was among the most worst polluted that Tepco has reported in the wake of the March 2011 tragedy at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, when damage resulted by an earthquake and a tsunami resulted to a disastrous event in three of the plant’s reactors.
Analysts have attacked the company since the incident, mentioning it has been slow to recognize problems at the seriously affected plant and has revealed limited details regarding the conditions inside. In spite of that, the government has left the company to a great extent in charge of the cleanup efforts.
M. Fackler