Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:33 pm by globalturbo
More radioactive horror for the Japanese: Kansai Electric Power Co reactor No.4 openining suspended after radioactive water found in the building
Kansai Electric Power Co. has found a puddle of radioactive water inside an auxiliary building at the Takahama nuclear plant's No. 4 reactor - an announcement that could throw a wrench into the reactor's planned reboot later this month.
The Fukui Prefectural Government's nuclear safety division said the radioactive water leak, announced by the utility Saturday, has had no ill effects on the environment.
Kansai Electric has suspended work to restart the 870,000-kilowatt reactor in the western town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, and is investigating the cause of the leak.
The suspension could affect the timetable for the reactor's reactivation.
According to the company, an alarm went off after water was injected into a pipe connected to the No. 4 reactor's first cooling system at around 3:40 p.m. Saturday.
Water was found dripping from two valves on a filter for cooling water in the auxiliary building.
The 8-liter puddle contained 14,000 becquerels of radioactive materials.
Judging from other traces on the floor, the total amount of radioactive water leaked came to roughly 34 liters, amounting to an estimated 60,000 becquerels of radioactive materials.
The No. 4 reactor, which is 30 years old, has been idled for more than 4½ years since it was taken offline in July 2011 for scheduled checkups.
The suspension period is longer than that of the Takahama plant's No. 3 reactor, which was reactivated in January, and that of the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, which were rebooted last year.
The four reactors, including the Takahama No. 4 reactor, have cleared the nation's strict new safety standards, which were introduced after the March 2011 triple meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant.
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