From NEI’s Japan Earthquake launch page:Update as of 3:30 p.m.
EDT, Friday, June 10 - Starting Friday, June 10, Tokyo Electric
Power Co. (TEPCO) will begin a weeklong test run of the new
water filtration system it intends to use to decontaminate and
reuse the 105,000 tons of highly radioactive water that has
flooded the facilities at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
plant. The system is expected to reduce concentrations of
radioactive materials in the water by a factor of up to 1
million. Oil and salt will be also removed. Contaminated water
is accumulating at a rate of 500 tons per day as cooling water
is injected into the reactors. The system is expected to treat
1,200 tons of water a day and should aid TEPCO's efforts to
control water management issues at the plant. There are growing
fears that the contaminated water could otherwise start
overflowing the plant basements by late June. - TEPCO reports
that two of its workers have received radiation doses exceeding
the company's limit of 25 rem. The result