Tepco simulates “Contaminated water overflows by June 2015″ - FUKUSHIMA MAIS MORTÍFERA QUE HIROSHIMA, NAGAZAKI E CHERNOBYL JUNTAS 4

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Tepco simulates “Contaminated water overflows by June 2015″ without bypass and sub-drain pumping

Even from Tepco’s estimate published on 10/31/2013, they will run out of the contaminated water storage facility by June 2015.

Tepco is planning to build 15 new tanks every month in 2013. From 2014, they originally planned to increase the storage capacity from

500,000m3 to 700,000m3 by 2015, but they increased this planned capacity to 800,000m3 for this simulation. However, contaminated water increases faster than Tepco builds new tanks.

This simulation is on the assumption that they don’t discharge the groundwater pumped up from the bypass wells, nor don’t have the sub-drain system into operation. (cf, Read the column about what the bypass wells and sub-drain are for, “[Column] Kamikaze and contaminated water [URL]“)

Considering the crippled plant situation and Tepco’s past operation skills, this assumption seems rather realistic.

If the plant has another heavy rain or typhoon and they end up having to stock the contaminated rainwater, they would run out of the...LINK

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