TEPCO Halts Radioactive Water Clean-up at Fukushima

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has suspended the clean-up of radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear plant just hours after it began the activity.

TEPCO had to halt the clean-up as the radiation level of a system designed to absorb radioactive cesium reached its processing limit and needed to be replaced.

The company planned to achieve full operation of the water treatment as it would help reduce the polluted water and create clean water that can be injected into the reactors.

The reactors lost cooling functions following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that damaged the plant.

The system, which can decontaminate 1,200t of water a day, employs technology from France’s Areva Group and the US’s Kurion.