The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant sat on its hands for more than two years despite having pledged to seal a leaking hole in a turbine building, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in April 2011 [...] that it would block the connection between a turbine building and an underground pit to prevent radioactive water from leaking into the sea. [...]
On March 27, 2011, TEPCO workers found that radioactive water, measuring more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour, lay in an underground pit adjacent to the turbine building for No. 2 reactor. [...]
TEPCO [...] left it unattended afterward. [...]
TEPCO officials have said the turbine building remains connected with the pit, which means highly radioactive water may still be leaking.
[...] the sealing work “has not been done to this day because of the (technical) difficulties involved,” the officials added.
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