First batch of Fukushima treated water discharge completed without setbacks

The owner of the damaged nuclear power plant Fukushima Today, the first batch of the treated water discharge from the plant was completed, in which 7,788 tons of the liquid have been thrown into the sea, a spokeswoman confirmed to EFE.

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The water was contained in ten tanks and the spill has developed “without any setback“, indicated the company operating the plant and in charge of the process, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO).

This represents around 0.6% of the 1.34 million tonnes of treated radioactive water that was stored at the facilities before the dumping began on August 24.

In the next three weeks TEPCO It plans to conduct an inspection of the equipment used in the process and begin a second round of spilling as soon as preparations are complete.

Millions of tons of contaminated water have been generated at the facilities, either by the cooling work of the damaged reactors and the fuel melted in the 2011 atomic accident, or by rainwater leaks in them over the years.

This water is treated through a complex filtration system that eliminates most of the harmful radioactive elementsminus tritium, before storage in tanks to be poured.

Currently there are more than 1,000 tanks on the plant grounds and its discharge is expected to continue for at least 30 years.

The treated water is diluted to reduce the levels of tritium present to less than a quarter of the concentration allowed according to national safety standards and to levels within the international standards considered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has given its approval to the plan.

TEPCO Every day a sampling and analysis of water samples is carried out. Pacific Ocean in a radius of three kilometers around the discharge area, the results of which are in the public domain, and for the moment no abnormal radioactive levels have been detected.

He IAEAwhich has also carried out independent analyses, has also not found anomalies at these levels.

The organization has recalled on several occasions that the nuclear power plants of everyone regularly pours treated water which contains tritium and other radionuclides as part of its normal operations.

Source: Elcomercio

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