Fukushima And Radioactive Water
FUKUSHIMA’S OTHER BIG PROBLEM: A MILLION TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER VINCE BEISER SCIENCE 04.27.18 07:00 AM Irradiated tanks of water at Fukushima Daiichi plant. SPENCER LOWELL THE TSUNAMI-DRIVEN SEAWATER that engulfed Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has long since receded. But plant officials are still struggling to cope with another dangerous flood: the enormous amounts of radioactive water the crippled facility generates each day. More than 1 million tons of radiation-laced water is already being kept on-site in an ever-expanding forest of hundreds of hulking steel tanks—and so far, there’s no plan to deal with them. The earthquake and tsunami that hammered Fukushima on March 11, 2011 triggered meltdowns in three of its six reactors . That left messes of intensely radioactive fuel somewhere loose in the reactor buildings—though no one knows exactly where . What is known, however, is that every day, as much 150 tons of groundwater percolates into ...