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injecting decontaminated water as a critical means to cool the plant’s crippled reactors and reduce the massive build-up of radioactive water at the complex.
Representatives from the utility firm, also known as TEPCO, said it started using a newly installed water treatment system yesterday afternoon to circulate recycled, decontaminated water around reactors No 1 to 3 in a bid to stabilise them. “We’ve taken a large step in efforts to restore the crisis-hit plant,” said Goshi Hosono, a special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the world’s worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Hosono’s comments came at a Press conference announcing the start of the new water circulation process. Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said separately that the central focus of the operation was to reduce the amount of radioactive water, as the facility is struggling to contain the massive volume of contaminated water from overflowing and further exacerbating the nuclear crisis. – Xinhua.