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Fukushima to Be Hit by Typhoon, Causing Ocean Contamination: Tepco
Fukushima to Be Hit by Typhoon, Causing Ocean Contamination: Tepco
Vehicles advance through a flooded street in Chiba, near Tokyo
4
October, 2014
MOSCOW,
October 4 (RIA Novosti), Ekaterina Blinova - Tepco, the Tokyo
Electric Power Company, has revealed that the approaching typhoon
could hit the damaged, decommissioned 40-year old nuclear power
facility Fukushima No.1, which was severely affected during the
earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
"The
deluge would likely cause seawater to mingle with the
radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor
buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of
cesium to escape, according to an estimate that Tepco revealed Friday
at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority," the Japan
Times reports.
According
to the media outlet, tidal waves from the storm are likely to reach a
maximum height of 26.3 meters or more. The storm is likely to strike
the Fukushima No.2 nuclear plant as well, but "its idled
reactors and fuel pools" are not expected to be destroyed, Tepco
officials assert.
It
should be noted that the 2011 tsunami reached a height of 15.5 meters
when it hit the plant, which was followed by a 9.0 magnitude
earthquake.
In
order to minimize the impact of the hurricane, Tepco "will
reduce the vast quantity of radioactive water" on the site, the
Asahi Shimbun notes. Citing Tepco's officials, the media source
claims that the amount of contaminated wate, which is expected to
spill into the ocean, could be decreased to 30 percent "by
filling in trenches near reactors."
Japan’s
Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) plans to verify the accuracy of
Tepco's estimate and the "appropriateness" of
countermeasures being taken in the face of the threat posed by the
typhoon.
The
prospective damage which the approaching typhoon may cause has
sparked a debate in the social networks. Users from around the world
are expressing their concerns regarding the further contamination of
the ocean which has been caused by leakages from the notorious plant.
Tepco
admits that a tsunami as high as 26.3 meters "occurs once every
10,000 to 100,000 years."
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