China News Service, September 23. According to Japanese media reports, Tokyo Electric Power Company said on the 21st that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant used to filter nuclear contaminated water in the "multi-nuclides removal equipment" (ALPS), and 5 more filters were found. The device is broken.
Not long before, TEPCO announced that 24 filters had been damaged.
On April 13, the Japanese government officially decided that the nuclear sewage from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will be discharged into the sea after being filtered and diluted.
The picture shows the nuclear sewage storage tank of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan on February 11.
According to Japan’s “Tokyo Shimbun” report, Tokyo Electric Power announced on the 21st that it had confirmed that it had newly confirmed the “Multi-Nuclear Removal Equipment” (ALPS) at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (located in Okuma-cho and Futaba-cho, Fukushima Prefecture) to treat nuclear wastewater. Five filters to prevent leakage of radioactive materials were damaged.
Tokyo Electric Power announced on the 13th that 24 out of 25 filters had been damaged.
The total number of damages thus increased to 29.
TEPCO said it will continue to inspect all equipment, but said that this matter will not affect the purification treatment of nuclear-contaminated water.
In addition, radioactive contamination has been detected near some filters, but Tepco declared that it "has no impact on the outside world."
Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has continued to have accidents. In fact, TEPCO has discovered the damage problem two years ago, but did not analyze the cause and propose countermeasures, and continue to use it only if it is replaced with a new one.
On September 13, Tepco reported 24 incidents of damage to ALPS filters at the Japan Atomic Energy Regulatory Commission meeting.
Japan’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Commission criticized on the 13th that TEPCO “has great management problems”.
Committee member Nobuhiko Ban bluntly said, "Apart from the problem of filter damage, the most fundamental thing is the attitude of TEPCO." In this regard, TEPCO stated that it must reflect on the matter, analyze the reasons, and discuss fundamental countermeasures.