OKUMA, Japan — At a little area of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s main control space, the dealtwith water transfer switch is on. A chart on a computersystem screen neighboring reveals a consistent decline of water levels as dealtwith radioactive wastewater is watereddown and launched into the Pacific Ocean.
In the seaside location of the plant, 2 seawater pumps are in action, gushing gushes of seawater through sky blue pipelines into the huge header where the dealtwith water, which comes down through a much thinner black pipeline from the hill tanks, is watereddown hundreds of times priorto the release.
The noise of the dealtwith and watereddown radioactive water streaming into an underground secondary swimmingpool was heard from underneath the ground as media, consistingof The Associated Press, visited the plant in northeastern Japan for the veryfirst time giventhat the water release started.
“The finest method to getridof the polluted water is to getridof the melted fuel particles,” stated Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings representative Kenichi Takahara, who accompanied Sunday’s media trip for foreign media.
But Takahara stated the shortage of info from inside the nuclear reactors makes preparation and advancement of the needed robotic innovation and a center for the melted fuel elimination very hard.
“Removal of the melted fuel particles is not like we can simply take it out and be endedup,” he stated.
The predicted decades-long release of dealtwith water hasactually been highly opposed by fishing groups and slammed by surrounding nations. China rightaway prohibited imports of seafood from Japan in action. In Seoul, thousands of South Koreans rallied over the weekend to condemn the release, requiring Japan to keep it in tanks.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday released a travel advisory to Japanese people to usage additional care while in China. It stated act of harassment, consistingof huge phone calls, haveactually targeted to the Japanese embassy, consulate and Japanese schools in China, and it prompted Japanese in China to stay away from those locations and from demonstrations of the water release, and not to talk loudly in Japanese to prevent attention.
Managing the ever-growing volume of radioactive wastewater held in more than 1,000 tanks hasactually been a security danger and a problem s