{"id":6542,"date":"2020-11-05T12:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T12:58:03","slug":"leak-forces-shut-down-of-fukushima-water-decontamination-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6542","title":{"rendered":"Leak Forces Shut Down of Fukushima Water Decontamination Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<p>One of the &#8220;crucial&#8221; units to decontaminate toxic wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear power plant was shut off Sunday after a leak of hydrochloric acid was found.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), hydrochloric acid\u2014which is used to neutralize contaminated alkaline water\u2014was found seeping from a pipe joint in one of three Advanced Liquid Processing System units. Thus far, roughly one liter of the acid has collected in a vinyl bag wrapped around the pipe joint to contain the leakage.<\/p>\n<p>The units, according to <em>Agence France-Presse<\/em>, are &#8220;expected to play a crucial role&#8221; in the treatment of &#8220;huge amounts&#8221; of contaminated water that have accumulated at the site since the crisis began in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The leaking unit is one of two that had been in trial operation and was scheduled to go into full operation Sunday.<\/p>\n<div   >\n<div  >\n<p>SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>AFP<\/em> continues:<\/p>\n<p>Last month TEPCO began the highly dangerous process of removing more than 1,500 spent nuclear fuel rods from the damaged No. 4 reactor. According to the TEPCO website, by Monday they had removed 44 fuel assembles including 22 irradiated used rods.<\/p>\n<p >_____________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.storerwc.com\/new-zealand.html' title='New Zealand rugby store'>New Zealand rugby store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the &#8220;crucial&#8221; units to decontaminate toxic wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear power plant was shut off Sunday after a leak of hydrochloric acid was found. According to a statement by the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), hydrochloric acid\u2014which is used to neutralize contaminated alkaline water\u2014was found seeping from a pipe joint in one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}