KURION AWARDED MORE FUKUSHIMA WORK

Kurion announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Tokyo Electric Power Company to provide a system to treat the water tanks at the Fukushima-Daiichi Power Station. The company previously provided treatment at the cleanup site to remove cesium from groundwater back in 2011, and this contract calls for the removal of strontium from the water that is currently being stored in tanks. The Kurion Mobile Processing System is capable of moving from tank to tank to treat the tanks, which hold around 350,000 tons of contaminated water, and according to Kurion, the first set of equipment has already arrived in Japan with the rest arriving in the coming weeks. “Kurion has been honored to work alongside TEPCO in the initial 2011 recovery and since to address cesium, which presented the greatest immediate threat to human safety and the environment,” Kurion President John Raymont said in a statement. “Today, strontium is the greatest emitter of radiation impacting site dose-rates. So, reducing strontium in tank water stored on-site will significantly improve worker safety and reduces the risk to the surrounding environment.”