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26 Mars 2014
March 25, 2014
TEPCO restarts water treatment system
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140325_49.html
Engineers at Tokyo Electric Power Company have restarted a key water treatment system at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Two of the 3 lines of the Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, were suspended on Monday after workers found water leaking from one of the storage tanks.
The workers changed the packing on a side hatch of the tank. They resumed operation of the 2 lines on Tuesday afternoon after confirming that no water was leaking.
ALPS has been beset by a series of problems.
A week ago, TEPCO halted the entire system after detecting extremely poor performance in one of the 3 lines.
On Monday, workers resumed operation of 2 of the lines, but found the water leak only 6 hours later.
The utility hopes to put ALPS into full operation in April.
Mar. 25, 2014 - Updated 11:38 UTC
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