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Fresh radioactive water leakage at Japan's
n-plant
Monday April 08, 2013 09:16:31 AM,
RIA
Novosti
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Tokyo:
Radioactive water may have leaked again into the ground from a
storage tank at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
in northeast Japan, the plant's operator reported Sunday.
The fresh leak is the latest in a series of troubles at the
nuclear power plant, hit by a massive earthquake and an ensuing
tsunami in 2011.
The leak comes a day after the plant's operator Tokyo Electric
Power Co. (TEPCO) said about 120 tonnes of contaminated water
might have escaped from another of the seven underground reservoir
tanks.
TEPCO said, however, the amount of the fresh water leak was
extremely small and the contaminated water was unlikely to flow
into the sea.
In March 2011, Japan was hit by a massive 9.0-magnitude quake
which caused a tsunami, claiming over 15,000 lives and triggering
a number of explosions at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
The tsunami caused a partial meltdown at three of the nuclear
plant's reactors. Radiation leaked into the atmosphere, soil and
seawater, making the accident the world's worst nuclear disaster
after Chernobyl.
Japan will need at least 40 years to recover fully from the
nuclear catastrophe, according to scientists.
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