Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Japan Nuclear Crisis: Decontamination system fails again at Japan nuclear plant!

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File Photo of Hamaoka nuclear power plant of Chubu Electric Power Co., in Central Japan.
File Photo of Hamaoka nuclear power plant of Chubu Electric Power Co., in Central Japan - AP/Kyodo News.

The operator of a damaged Japanese nuclear plant suspended another test run of a newly installed water-treatment system after its pump stopped on Tuesday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co said the pump was overburdened by excessive liquid flow, Kyodo News reported.
The system designed to decontaminate highly radioactive water stopped only five hours into full operation on Friday at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, 250 kilometres north-east of Tokyo.
The operator concluded on Monday that absorbent materials inside the decontamination equipment needed changing more frequently than previously estimated, public broadcaster NHK reported.
The company is trying to reduce radioactivity in water that has accumulated around the plant as a result of emergency measures to cool the reactor cores. Storage facilities for contaminated water were reaching capacity.
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