Pumping Subterranean Water in Fukushima to Cut Radioactive Flow

Tokyo, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began today pumping radioactive subterranean water near the damaged Fukushima One to prevent its flow into the sea.

The procedure includes passing the contaminated liquid through a channel and then store it in tanks located inside the plant.

TEPCO's technicians tried to consolidate the soil around the retaining wall, but the increase of subterranean water level gave rise to fears that an overflow occurs and the water reaches the sea.

The direction of the company said it plans to place the next week 30 tubes of five meters in length each in the vicinity of the containment fence, in order to increase the pumping capacity.

With these measures it is expected to extract of the ground about 100,000 liters of water per day.

According to investigations by state institutions, the amount of discharged radioactive liquid dumped in the ocean reaches 300,000 liters.

Meanwhile, a fishing cooperative, the Soma-Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, decided to cancel the tasks of fishery in the area for fear of providing contaminated products.

Fishermen if the region abandoned their jobs after the nuclear accident in March 2011, caused by an earthquake and the a tsunami.

As a trial, the cooperative members made capture tasks and found that the radiation detected in fish is much lower than the limit accepted by the Government.

However, they decided to cancel their activities, due to customers asking the question of whether the products are safe for consumption.