TEPCO drowning in dealing with tons of radioactive water

TEPCO drowning in dealing with tons of radioactive water

As if Tokyo Electric Power Co., the embattled operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, didn't have enough problems, another daunting task is what to do with an estimated 90,000 tons of radioactive water.

...The total amount of contaminated water at the No. 2 reactor was estimated at 25,000 tons before the transfer work got under way, equivalent to about 400,000 terabecquerels of radioactivity.

When Japan's nuclear industry regulator, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), upgraded the severity level of the accident at the plant to a maximum 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) on April 12, it cited an estimate for the radiation emitted into the atmosphere at 370,000 terabecquerels as the basis for the raise.

That means that radioactive water at the No. 2 reactor alone suffices to be classified as a level-7 accident....

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105120189.html

Good article - K

To answer your question: who the hell knows?

wouldn't have to dispose of so much of it. But, I suppose they are having problems fixing their current plumbing system.