(16 April 2014) Fukushima Radioactive "Technical Difficulties"
Channel: NibiruMagick2012
Date: 17/04/2014

Mirror from MissingSky101 title was: Fukushima News 4/16/14: Oops! Radioactive Water Overflows Again;Preventing Fuku Sabotage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWlGLD4UFlM&feature=youtu.be
I couldn't help but think of this when the NHK announcer said the ALPS system had "several technical difficulties"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crPl0ITIkS0&feature=youtu.be
Radioactive water overflows at treatment facility
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says another setback has hit a key system used to decontaminate highly-radioactive water.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company says water used to wash contaminated equipment overflowed from a storage facility on Wednesday.
TEPCO says workers discovered the problem while washing a tank used for filtering radioactive substances from water. The tank is on one of the 3 separate lines of the Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS.
The utility says more than 1,000 liters of water overflowed and are now within a barrier inside the ALPS building.
The firm says the water contains 3.8 million becquerels of beta ray emitting materials such as strontium and 6,700 becquerels of cesium 137.
The company says no workers have been exposed to radiation from overflow.
It is investigating the cause of the accident.
Only 1 of the 3 lines in the decontamination facility is in service following a problem last month, when the system's performance dropped sharply.
ALPS is the main facility at the plant used to decontaminate water, and can remove almost all radioactive substances. Test operations started last year, and full-fledged use was scheduled to begin this month.
However, the system has experienced various technical difficulties, forcing it to be shut down frequently.

TEPCO ordered to act on contaminated water problem
Japan's nuclear regulator has ordered the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to strengthen safety measures for handling contaminated water. The Tokyo Electric Power Company announced a mishandling incident at the plant and the regulator wants to prevent a reoccurrence.
Workers at the plant inject water into damaged reactors to cool melted fuel. The water becomes highly radioactive in the process, and is supposed to be held in storage buildings before being sent to a decontaminating facility.
On Monday TEPCO learned that more than 200,000 liters of highly contaminated water was mistaken pumped to the basement of a building in the compound. The company says 4 pumps for emergency use directed the water.
Nuclear Regulation Authority Commissioner Toyoshi Fuketa called for stronger measures at a regular meeting of the group on Wednesday. He suggested steps such as setting up security cameras and locking the pumps' switch boxes.
The regulator ordered the utility to come up with preventative measures and report them at an experts' panel scheduled for Friday.
TEPCO has yet to determine who turned on the pumps and how the incident came about. The regulator has also asked to be briefed on the results of TEPCO's investigation.
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