Published: August 6th, 2013 at 10:09 pm ET By ENENews

Title: Japan struggles with Fukushima water leaks
Source: CNN
Author: Matt Smith
Date: August 6, 2013

[...] highly radioactive water from the site has been seeping into groundwater and the harbor off the plant. [...]

[...] The problem now is what to do with groundwater that’s leaking into the damaged basements of the reactor buildings and passing out contaminated, said Michael Friedlander, a former nuclear plant operator and engineer. [...]

[Tepco] is having to store the radioactive water in massive tank farms built around the site — a makeshift solution with no good permanent fix, Friedlander said. [...]

And Friedlander said that may leave TEPCO and Japan’s government with two choices sure to stoke further public anger: “You can either dump it in the ocean, or you can evaporate it.”

“At the end of the day, collecting 400 tons of water every single day is not a sustainable solution,” he said.

Federal officials allowed the Three Mile Island nuclear plant [...] to let contaminated water evaporate, Friedlander said — but TMI was nowhere near the scale of the Fukushima disaster.

“We’re in uncharted territory here,” he said.

 

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