14 DAY TRIAL // Typhoon Wipha, which happens to be the strongest storm to hit Asia in the last 10 years, made landfall on October 16, in the early hours of the morning, local time.
Japan's Tokyo area was the one hit the hardest. However, it appears that the typhoon has also brought heavy rainfall to the already crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Over the past few months, several leaks and fairly embarrassing (for Tepco, that it) incidents have been reported at this facility.
Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that people are worried that typhoon Wipha will make the situation at the nuclear plant go from bad to worse.
ENE News tells us that, according to information thus far shared by Tepco with the general public, excessive rain dumped by the storm over the nuclear facility has left workers with no choice except drain several dozen tons of water that built up around the plant's radioactive water storage tanks into the ocean.
Tepco claims that, despite the fact that it did contain traces of radioactive materials, the water that has thus far been dumped complied with safety standards, and that disposing of it in this manner was unlikely to cause any trouble.
Stay tuned for more information.