On Feb. 14, local time, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began dismantling some of the storage tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant that had been vacated due to the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water. This marks the first removal of these tanks since the discharge began approximately a year and a half ago.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant has over 1,000 tanks storing treated contaminated water, which contains radioactive substances like tritium. Since August of last year, TEPCO has been diluting and discharging this water into the sea.
With the discharge underway, some tanks have now been emptied. This is the first time that TEPCO has dismantled storage tanks since the discharge started. The company plans to dismantle 12 tanks within this fiscal year and construct related facilities on-site for the official removal of nuclear fuel debris, scheduled to begin in the 2030s.
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