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Fukushima Daiichi wall seems effective as seawater pollution drops: TEPCO

6 November 2015

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on Nov. 5. that the concentration of radioactive substances in seawater near the shore of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant appears to be declining after the completion of a seaside underground wall there to block the flow of contaminated groundwater into the ocean.The utility therefore believes it is likely that the new wall is successfully shielding the flow of contaminated groundwater, resulting in the decrease in radioactive substances flowing into the sea from the shore. Read original
(Fukushima Minpo News)

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