China News Service, May 17 According to a report by the Japanese Kyodo News Agency on the 17th, the Tokyo Electric Power Company of Japan said that of the approximately 580 buildings in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant area, 8 buildings were affected by external walls or some equipment in the 2011 accident Damaged but left untreated, it is getting older and there may be a personal accident nearby. Although it is forbidden to enter high-risk locations, TEPCO will discuss countermeasures such as demolition to prevent accidents.

  In January 2019, an accident occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The iron plate on the scaffold about 76 meters above the ground was corroded on the shared exhaust cylinder (about 120 meters high) of Units 3 and 4. drop. In view of the accident, Tepco inspected the aging of all buildings in the plant.

Data Map: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

  Tepco said that the eight buildings are the reactor building of Unit 4, the steam turbine room of Unit 2, and the waste treatment room near the reactor buildings of Units 1 and 2. Due to the tsunami and hydrogen explosion impact 9 years ago, the external wall was cracked or the equipment installed was on the verge of falling off.

  The steam turbine room of Unit 2 is advancing the transfer of nuclear sewage accumulated underground, while the waste treatment room is advancing the modification of the pipeline through which nuclear sewage flows, and there are operators entering and exiting. TEPCO removed the high-risk items such as cables that were about to fall off the top of the steam turbine room, and set up roadblocks in places where accidents may occur.

  TEPCO plans to show the countermeasures based on the status of each building, such as demolishing or removing hazardous materials, by the end of May 2020.