Currently, the plant has about 500,000 tons of contaminated water stored in more than 1,000 tanks, occupying a vast majority of the Fukushima Daiichi complex. This process is followed by the transportation of contaminated water via pipe systems to several storage tanks, where accumulation exceeds over thousands of additional radioactive gallons daily. On any given day, ten tonnes of groundwater stream from neighboring hills and into the basements of the three damaged reactors, where it is mixed with cooled water in order to prevent melted fuel from exploding and causing another tragic accident. This is due to the fact reactors 1, 2, and 3 continue to discharge nearly 1 billion millisieverts of nuclear contamination through radioactive gases, as all uranium cores of the three reactors melted down and through the steel, resulting in ongoing production of enormous amounts of radiation and heat for decades to come. The processing of contaminated water is noted to be the most severe barrier towards cleaning up the aftermath of the Daiichi nuclear disaster as the plantвЂ™s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) along with its partner firms, have commissioned nearly all of their 6,000 workers to complete the mission almost four years after the disastrous tsunami. More issues fall within the ineffective methods used for the processing of contaminated water, debris, soil, and secondary nuclear wastes produced by damaged spent fuel within reactors and primary containment structures.

Efforts to clean up contaminated areas are failing as homes and nearby communities continue to be contaminated by melting snow and rainwater running down the contaminated hills. Since Fukushima DaiichiвЂ™s nuclear meltdown in March 2011, there has been minor progress in removing the radioactive substance from exclusion zones and disposal of contaminated water.

Fukufhima reactor meltdown