Press Releases 2015

On June 9, 2011, we received an instruction document^*, "Installment of treatment facility and storing facility of water including highly concentrated radioactive materials at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Instruction)" from Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

(Previously announced on June 9, 2011)

Since then, per the instruction, we have been treating the water accumulated in the Central Radioactive Waste Treatment Facility that contains highly concentrated radioactive materials. We announce today we submitted a report to the Nuclear Regulation Authority regarding the latest updates of storage and treatment of the accumulated water.

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−Situation of storage and treatment of accumulated water including highly concentrated radioactive materials at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (189th Release) Revised Version (PDF 291KB)

• *Attachment-1 of Storage and Treatment of High Level Radioactive Accumulated Water, 189th report, published on February 20, 2015, contains the following incorrect figure. We would like to apologize for providing the figure, and inform you of the correct one in the announcement.
• 1.Storage and Treatment of High Level Radioactive Accumulated Water (as of February 19, 2015), Attachment-1
  The table at the upper right corner of the Attachment-1 shows the "Storage volume" of different water storage tanks. The figure of the "Change from the last report" cell in there was +8,484m³ as first published, but the correct one is +7,434m³.
  

(Corrected onFebruary 25, 2015)

* Installment of treatment facility and storage facility of water including highly concentrated radioactive materials at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Instruction) (NISA No. 6, June 8, 2011)