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April 19, 2011. Workers pump high irradiated water out of reactor 2 ahead of repair work in Japan

SOURCE: Altegrity Risk International

Workers at the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began removing 25,000 tons of highly radioactive water from the basement of reactor no. 2 to carry out repair work on its cooling system, reports indicated on April 19th. Officials are to store the waste water in a storage building on-site; the water would then be treated to remove as much radioactivity as possible. Robots were used to investigate radiation levels in reactor no. 1, 2, and 3, with radiation levels still too high in no. 1 and 3. Officials said that they measured no significant radiation leak on April 19th and that they would no longer be pumping lightly irradiated water out of the reactors to make room for the highly irradiated water.