NEWSTALK 860 » radioactive water http://ksfa860.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Japan Nuclear Plant Pumping Highly Radioactive Water http://ksfa860.com/japan-nuclear-pumping-highly-radioactive-water/ http://ksfa860.com/japan-nuclear-pumping-highly-radioactive-water/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:58:09 +0000 Andree Valentine http://ksfa860.com/?p=3787 The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant began pumping highly radioactive water Tuesday from the basement of one of its buildings to a makeshift storage area in a crucial step toward easing the nuclear crisis.

Removing the 25,000 tons of contaminated water that has collected in the basement of a turbine building at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant will help allow access for workers trying to restore vital cooling systems that were knocked out in the March 11 tsunami.

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