The head of a United Nations team inspecting the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in eastern Japan said that the issue of toxic water build up at the crippled plant was a top concern for TEPCO's decommissioning and cleanup effort.
Juan Carlos Lentijo said that TEPCO (the Tokyo Electric Power Company) and the government of Japan had developed a “very impressive set of countermeasures” to deal with groundwater that was seeping into damaged buildings, where it was becoming contaminated. The plant was crippled in March 2011, as Japan was rocked by an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and the power plant was hit with a subsequent tsunami event.
Lentijo said his International Atomic Energy Agency team of 15 experts were at the plant to review progress on cleanup efforts, with a special focus on the toxic water issue. Currently, there are 350 tons of toxic water generated each day at the plant, where three reactors suffered meltdowns during the catastrophic events in 2011.
The platoon of IAEA experts will be at the plant for nine days, Dalje.com reported.