TEPCO to Get Tanks to Hold Fukushima Contaminated Water

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) is to receive 370 tanks in mid-August this year to store contaminated water at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

The tanks will have a total capacity for more than 40,000 tonnes of radioactive water, which will help keep the plant’s reactors cool.

Massive amounts of water have been poured onto the reactors where fuel rods are reported to have melted.

Currently, a huge floating structure to hold radioactive water was berthed at the quay in May to contain part of nearly 90,000 tonnes of contaminated water.

French nuclear group Areva and other companies are to set up a water reprocessing facility to clean contaminated water from mid-June, reports AFP.