Reply #370: Tepco is hoping to recycle water into the reactor core

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Meanwhile, work to pump out dangerous radioactive water from the plant's reactor 2 turbine building continued Wednesday, and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the level of contaminated water filling up an underground tunnel connected to the building finally started dropping.

But the water level of another trench connected to the reactor 3 turbine building is edging up, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

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Tepco plans to create by June a system that would clean up the stored water to some extent. It is also hoping to eventually recycle some of the water so it can be injected into the reactor core.

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