Japan's crippled nuclear power plant in an effort to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of high pollution water used for cooling broken reactor, water treatment team manager said.
About 200000 tons of radioactive water - enough to fill more than 50 games specifications of the swimming pool - are stored in hundreds of huge tanks around fukushima first plant operators Tokyo electric power company has cut light trees to make room for more tanks and forecast, the volume of water three times above, three years.
"This is a pressing problem, because our land is limited, we finally storage space, water treatment manager, save a gang village better times," told the Associated Press reporter's exclusive interview, this week.
Tokyo electric power company is in running a new processing system, can make enough safe water released into the ocean. But in the meantime, its tanks, fill - this is mainly because in the reactor facilities leakage make into groundwater.
External experts worry that if contaminated water is released, the impact on the environment will be lasting. They are afraid of, because the reactor leakage and effluent water from one part of the plant to another, may have occurred.
Nuclear engineer college lecturer history page turn to say, polluted water accumulation caused the long-term health and the threat to the environment. He is worried about basement, radioactive water may have entered the groundwater system, it can reach far beyond the factory, may be in the ocean or public water supply system.
"You never know its leakage, once it, you can put it back," he said. "This is only road and unexpected is much disaster."
The nightmare scenario than Tokyo electric power company is faced with a few weeks after the March 11, 2011, the earthquake and tsunami knock on power and cooling system, in the factory, to the explosion and disaster 3 reactor core is one of the world's most serious nuclear disaster, because so serious attention chernobyl. The factory released into the surrounding air, soil and Marine radiation and displaced more than 100000 people, who is not sure - or - they will be able to return to their homes.
To fusion reactor dump a lot of water is the only way out, in order to avoid greater disaster.
Gang village remember frantically trying to find a way to get the highest floor is located in high 50 meters of reactor plant spent fuel tank of water. There's no water, spent fuel could overheat, melting, radioactive smoke miles may influence to millions of people.
"Water constantly evaporation, if we keep them separate pool are dried up," he said. "This will be the end of it."
Try to pour water from the helicopter is invalid. Fire truck fountain cannot work. Gang village contributed to in a huge, made in Germany concrete, make the pump remote control arm grow enough fuel tank water spray.
The plan of work - at this time, gang village better times said.
These measures and other contributed to the factory in under the control of thin, but it will take decades to cleaning radioactive substances. And those desperate steps created another huge headache this practical tools: what to do with radioactive water leakage damaged reactor, in reactor building basement and nearby facilities, collect.
Some water run into, improve the Marine pollution sea creatures and seafood concerns. 20 km (12 miles) within the waters of the still limit, high pollution levels, have been found in the area of submarine sediments and fish on test.
Gang village rather time task is to establish a processing system, make water is not clean and reuse as a cooling agent, is also in order to reduce workers health risk and environmental damage.
At first, the utility of the polluted water distribution to the existing tank, near the reactor. At the same time, the gang village rather 55 times members consisting of team haste to get processing unit operation in three months of accident - a project, usually takes about two years, he said.
"" this is a miracle," he said, and hailed from his hand the first units when they start working.
Using this equipment, Tokyo electric power company can recycle treatment water back to the reactor core. However, even now reactor cooling with circulating water is special, polluted water volume is growing, mainly because groundwater through the crack infiltration to the reactor and turbine basement.
The research group plans gang village next month, new purification equipment using Toshiba company's technology, is thought to purified water to remove strontium and other species, may be less testing flip horizontal switch, "he said.
Tokyo electric power company says, treatment of water from the new system is clean, may be released into the ocean, but it did not say whether you will do this. Doing so will need to authorities and local agree and permission, may also trigger in the domestic and foreign severely criticized.
In order to deal with excess polluted water, this practical program, its more than 300 giant tank surrounding plant. The practical tools installation tank up to 700000 tons of plan - or about three years of value - polluted water. If the highest, it can set up extra space storage about two years of value, yoshida, true arch, this company spokesman said.
However, these predictions hinge detection and into the hole damaged reactor plan to reduce the leakage in the next two years. This practical program also plans to take measures to keep the groundwater infiltration reactor basement.
Both are task, Tokyo electric power company is still not sure how to realize these areas still exist, but it is not clear the human, even robots can have such a high radioactive.
There is a storage tank and the jury of the manipulation of the piping system connection they may be damaged, if the region's another earthquake or the risk of tsunami hit.
Nuclear engineers, goto statement, I believe it will take longer for more than two years of Tokyo electric power company goal reactor repair all the loopholes. The factory will also have processing polluted water from reactor - this process will be very easy to more than ten years, until all the melting of the fuel and other sundry.
He said, Tokyo electric power company dealing with problems of the map is "wishful thinking".




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