Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant becomes state of the clean-up – Gulf Today

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant becomes state of the clean-up – Gulf Today

The route to the rooms involves stepping over detritus from the disaster and squeezing along improvised staircases.. The photo shows the central control room for the unit one reactor at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture.. The influx has been limited in part by the construction of an underground "ice wall" that is more than a metre thick, over a kilometre long and extends 30 metres into the ground.. Pumps are also used to reduce the amount of water that comes into the plant, but rain and water used to cool the reactors continues to generate 170 cubic metres (170,000 litres) of highly radioactive liquid a day.. The contaminated water at the plant passes through a filtration system known as ALPS to reduce radioactivity.. Each day between 4,000 and 5,000 workers pass through the Fukushima Daiichi plant, most of them employees or subcontractors of TEPCO..