TEPCO as well as the agency for energy and natural resources are working to fix the situation and reinforce the barrier with the utmost urgency. Japan's Government estimates that around 300 tons of radioactive water are poured daily in the ocean, which originate from the basement where the reactors are housed.
Recent repairs would extract up to 100 tons of this water once repairs are finished mid August. This contaminated water contains high traces of tritium and strontium.
For now TEPCO's highest concern is to deal with the contaminated water that is currently stockpiled in the basements of the reactor buildings, which continues to grow in about as much as 400 tons daily due to subterranean water filtering from adjacent zones, which gets contaminated once it passes through the reactors.
The problem in these nuclear facilities in Fukushima is derived from the earthquake that reached 9 degrees in the Richter scale, and the tsunami that shook japan on the 11th of March 2011, other nuclear facilities that were affected by this are Onagawa and Tokai.
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