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World Nuclear News reported that radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi site have been reduced to the point that full-face masks are not needed for 90 percent of the site, but worker safety is still high-priority.
World Nuclear News reported that radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi site have been reduced to the point that full-face masks are not needed for 90 percent of the site, but worker safety is still high-priority.
As quoted in the market news:
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) announced positive comments from its independent Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee after a quarterly progress report. The company has made progress in processing highly contaminated water, with only a small amount remaining to be dealt with when now-unneeded storage tanks are dismantled. Without the former volumes of contaminated water on site, ambient radiation has reduced significantly, said Tepco.
A second major step regarding contaminated water was the sealing of vertical shafts in the trenches running under units 2 and 3, enabling Tepco to pump out the highly contaminated water in one of them. These complicated trenches flooded during the long accident sequence and were the source of some of the most significant leaks to sea.