Tepco Must End ‘Whack-a-Mole,’ Cover Fukushima Reactors as Typhoons Loom

Tepco Must End ‘Whack-a-Mole,’ Cover Fukushima Reactors as Typhoons Loom


By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada - Apr 21, 2011 12:40 PM GMT+0900


Tokyo Electric Power Co. must speed up plans to cover reactors at its crippled nuclear plant and drain tainted water to prevent more radiation leaks as Japan’s typhoon season approaches, engineering professors said.

In 2004, eight cyclones passed over or skirted Japan’s Tohoku region, where the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station is spewing radiation after an earthquake and tsunami on March 11. The earliest was in May that year, according to Japan’s weather agency data. The eyes of two storms passed within 300 kilometers of Tohoku last year, the data show.



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