The system decontamination of ALPS water from the damaged plant of Fukushima He has been completely paralyzed since May 20 in the morning, after stopping the third line of treatment.
The device, which serves to eliminate a sixty part of the radionuclides of the waters that were used to cool the reactors, is made up of three parallel lines of decontamination.
The first two (A and B) stopped working a few days ago. The third (named C) stopped early in the morning because of the degradation of their returns.
The cause of all these problems is unknown and has not been explained by the company Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) that directs the operations. The system ALPS It has been trying to work for several months, but in fact it does not stop encountering different problems.
This equipment developed by the Japanese group Toshiba has been presented to solve the problem of contaminated water from the damaged plant of Fukushima Daiichi, partly destroyed by the tsunami of March 11, 2011.
More than 400.000 cubic meters of water contaminated are currently stored in more than a thousand gigantic deposits hastily assembled in the atomic complex, and Tepco continues to install another forty a month to try to keep up with the continuous flow of liquid extracted from the subsoil of the site and the permanent irrigation of the reactors destroyed.
This water problem is the most difficult the company has ever had to face. company and one of those that most concern the international community due to the risks of contamination from the neighboring Pacific Ocean.