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TEPCO now burning thousands of radioactive work clothes

TEPCO begins burning radiation-tainted work clothes at Fukushima plant Asahi Shimbun, February 26, 2016 By HIROMI KUMAI/ Staff Writer OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Tokyo Electric Power Co. has started to incinerate the thousands of boxes of lightly contaminated waste, including clothing used by workers, at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to reduce the amount of tainted waste on the site.

TEPCO, the plant operator, fired up a special on-site incinerator on Feb. 25 to burn protective suits, gloves, socks and other work clothes worn by plant workers that became contaminated with low-level radiation.

The operation will reduce the amount of tainted work clothing accumulating at the plant during decommissioning operations since the nuclear disaster unfurled in March 2011. The garments cannot be processed outside the plant due to the radiation.

The clothing being incinerated are items with the lowest levels of contamination that have been stored in tens of thousands of 1 cubic-meter special boxes. The number of containers reached 66,000 at the end of last year…….http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201602260071

February 29, 2016 - Posted by | Fukushima 2016, Japan, wastes

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