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Radioactive water being pumped into Fukushima nuclear building

Report: Contaminated water purposely being pumped into basement of Fukushima reactor’s turbine building http://enenews.com/report-contaminated-water-purposely-being-pumped-into-basement-of-fukushima-reactors-turbine-building
Title: Water in all leaky trenches at No. 1 routed to other storage, Tepco says
Source: Kyodo, JIJI
Date: July 3, 2013

Water in all leaky trenches at No. 1 routed to other storage, Tepco says

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has finished pumping out radioactive water from all seven of its huge covered trenches at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant […]

[…] It was found that the highly radioactive water that had been pumped into the trenches, which are triple-lined, was seeping into the ground. […]

The less-contaminated water was pumped into the basement of the reactor 6 turbine building and will eventually be transferred to above-ground containers, Tepco said late Monday. […]
See also: Japan Engineer: Fukushima contaminated water to go in giant pit — “It can easily be discharged underground” (VIDEO)

July 5, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima 2013