The company that manages the damaged nuclear power plant to Fukushimathat had been hit by the tsunami Caled by the terrible earthquake of 2011, it announced today that it began the process of dissolving processed water tanks to free up space to store radioactive debris.

The tanks ‘breakup work’ ‘began at 08:05’ (local time; at 01:05 Greek time), Tatsuya Matoba, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Company (TSPCO), told the French Agency. The launch of the business was delayed for about 24 hours due to strong winds.

The venture, in order to empty space in order to store nuclear debris into it, is considered an important step in the plan to decommission.

“To move on to the next steps, such as recovery of (nuclear) fuel debris, we need space,” Naoko Maesiro, in charge of the TEPCO water tanks project, explained yesterday.

The company plans, after dissolving these tanks, to build an infrastructure of about 880 tonnes of radioactive debris and, extremely dangerous waste, which have not yet been recovered by damaged reactors.

TEPCO wants the dissolution of the tanks to be completed before March 2026.

After the giant tsunami, which caused a 9 -magnitude earthquake on March 11, 2011, TEPCO kept a damaged factory stored in the damaged factory of some 1.3 million tonnes .

This water, which was processed by the Alps system (“advanced liquid treatment system”) to reduce the level of radioactivity, remains stored in over a thousand tanks. They occupy almost the factory space.

The dissolution of the tanks became possible after the rejection of processed water began to the Pacific Ocean in August 2023. Despite strong reactions and concerns, in particular of China, both the Japanese authorities and the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) Water rejection at sea does not harm the environment.

The decontamination, dismantling and definitive decommissioning of the Fukushimas factory will take decades.

Three of the six reactors at the Fukushima factory were operating when the tsunami hit it on March 11, 2011, causing their cooling systems to collapse and cause the worst nuclear disaster in history, along with Chernobyl in 1986.