Toshiba Corp. and two other companies have developed water purification equipment to be used to process water contaminated with high levels of radiation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Toshiba Corp. and two other companies have developed water purification equipment to be used to process water contaminated with high levels of radiation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The equipment was shown to reporters July 14 at Toshiba's plant in Yokohama.
The equipment will join other equipment developed by Kurion Inc. of the United States and Areva SA of France that is already in operation at the Fukushima plant.
The equipment developed by Toshiba will begin operating from early August.
It was jointly developed along with U.S. engineering contractor Shaw Group and IHI Corp. of Japan.
Synthetic zeolite and titanium silicate that can absorb radioactive materials have been inserted into a cylinder. A series of cylinders will be connected and the contaminated water will flow through the cylinders for purification.