China News Service, September 26. According to Kyodo News, the Japan Atomic Energy Research and Development Agency has built a new facility to analyze nuclear-contaminated water and medium and low radioactive rubble in the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The facility was completed on the 25th. The ceremony is open to the interested parties in advance.
The analysis job is expected to start in October.
The picture shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan on February 13, 2022.
According to reports, the Japanese government and TEPCO intend to start the discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea as soon as next spring.
Masano Oguchi, chairman of the Atomic Energy Research and Development Institute, said that the facility will act as a third party to objectively and transparently verify whether the activity of radioactive materials is below the safe standard value.
In addition to the assay results, they are also exploring the publication of analytical methods.
According to reports, the completion of this time is the "Radioactive Material Analysis and Research Facility" Building 1.
These include an "iron box" covered with iron about 30 centimeters thick to handle rubble with a robotic arm, a "glove box" for handling radioactive substances in airtight containers with gloves, and instruments for measuring treated water.
About 80 people will be involved in the analysis work.
Building 2 will also be built in the center to investigate high-level radioactive waste such as molten nuclear fuel (fuel debris).
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 occurred in the waters off northeastern Japan and triggered a huge tsunami.
Affected by the earthquake and tsunami, a large amount of radioactive material leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
On April 13, 2021, the Japanese government officially decided to discharge Fukushima nuclear sewage into the sea after filtering and diluting it, but this decision was strongly opposed by residents of Fukushima Prefecture and the National Federation of Fisheries Trade Unions in Japan.