Japan’s nuclear regulators have expressed alarm at the failure of a much-vaunted effort to freeze radioactive water that has built up beneath the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, warning that the water could very easily escape into the nearby Pacific Ocean.
Toyoshi Fuketa, the commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, has called on Tokyo Electric Power Co. to re-examine its plan to freeze around 11,000 thousand tons of contaminated water that is sloshing about in trenches dug around the reactor buildings.
The water is a mixture of water sprayed on the reactor chambers to keep them cool and ground water that has soaked into the trenches.
Tepco has staked a great deal of its containment effort on a never-before attempted scheme to insert frozen ducts into the highly contaminated water beneath the three reactors that suffered meltdowns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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