Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, has begun installing this Saturday a steel wall to prevent more water from leaking radioactive material into the sea, local news agency Kyodo. TEPCO will try and plug an outlet to the Pacific Ocean connected to the reactor 2, which was taking water used in the turbine building when the system worked properly.
Now, technicians are concerned that through this channel is highly radioactive water is leaking into the sea, so the block with seven steel plates and a plastic mesh of 120 meters wide. On Wednesday, TEPCO operators managed to stop a leak highly polluting discovered four days earlier in a pit of Fukushima Daiichi plant near the sea, the levels of radioactivity in the ocean have remained high, although down from a peak of 7.5 million over the legal limit.
The concentration of radioactive iodine in marine waters near the center one day after it Detev filtration was 63,000 times higher than allowed. Russia, China and South Korea have expressed concern about leakage of radioactive material by sea and by the dumping of 9,000 tonnes scheduled until low-level radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
According to experts, this landfill is required to allow stored water with higher concentrations of radioactive material and can accelerate the work to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi reactors. For its part, the Japanese Nuclear Safety Agency has ordered all nuclear power operators in the archipelago to increase security checks on the reactors and generators to avoid a new catastrophe in the event of another earthquake or tsunami. 
Now, technicians are concerned that through this channel is highly radioactive water is leaking into the sea, so the block with seven steel plates and a plastic mesh of 120 meters wide. On Wednesday, TEPCO operators managed to stop a leak highly polluting discovered four days earlier in a pit of Fukushima Daiichi plant near the sea, the levels of radioactivity in the ocean have remained high, although down from a peak of 7.5 million over the legal limit.
The concentration of radioactive iodine in marine waters near the center one day after it Detev filtration was 63,000 times higher than allowed. Russia, China and South Korea have expressed concern about leakage of radioactive material by sea and by the dumping of 9,000 tonnes scheduled until low-level radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.
According to experts, this landfill is required to allow stored water with higher concentrations of radioactive material and can accelerate the work to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi reactors. For its part, the Japanese Nuclear Safety Agency has ordered all nuclear power operators in the archipelago to increase security checks on the reactors and generators to avoid a new catastrophe in the event of another earthquake or tsunami.
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