AREVA awarded water treatment plant contract...

AREVA, of France, has been awarded the first post-accident contract at Fukushima Daiichi. This company will construct on-site a large water treatment plant which will filter and decontaminate the large volume of contaminated water on-site (now totalling some 67,000 tons at last estimate and growing daily.) The announcement was made Tuesday in Tokyo, by TEPCO officials.

We're still waiting for a nod to one or the other groups of reactor vendors and their consultant firms to see which gets the contract to decommission the plants. Both are very viable candidates. If AREVA has thrown its hat in this ring, we're not aware of it.

12:25 PM Eastern Tuesday 4/19
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