Toshiba to Provide Water Treatment System to TEPCO

Toshiba is to deliver a water treatment system to Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan to help with decontamination efforts.

The new system will have a capacity to treat 1,200t of water per day, and will start operations from August 2011, according to mdn.mainichi.jp.

The unit is 1.4m wide and 3.6m high, and is equipped with 14 adsorption towers, which will eliminate radioactive materials such as caesium from contaminated water.

Toshiba officials said that the company has worked to reduce the risk of malfunction by limiting the number of pumps operating the system.