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Latest Radioactive Leak at Fukushima: How Is It Different?
2013-08-22 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: n the latest crisis to strike the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) has discovered that 300 tons (nearly 72,000 gallons) of highly radioactive water has leaked from a holding tank into the ground over the past month. The development comes on top of TEPCO's admission last month that an estimated 300 tons of radioactive groundwater, which picks up small amounts of contamination when it flows through the damaged reactor buildings, has been leaking...
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Japan: Fukushima: the global fallout
2013-08-22 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The long, dark shadow cast by the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station grew longer and darker on Wednesday as the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, admitted that 3,000 tonnes of highly toxic water had leaked from purpose-built storage tanks. The disaster, caused when the tsunami that followed the devastating earthquake in 2011 knocked out backup generators pumping water to cool the fuel rods, has cost more than $200bn (128bn) and is now expected to cost...
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Japan: New Fukushima Radioactive Leak Worst Since Original Accident
2013-08-21 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Japan`s Nuclear Regulation Authority now says a leak of radioactive water from a tank at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant Monday is a "serious incident" not just an "anomaly" as it was originally classified on an international scale. On Monday morning, an employee of the plant`s owner/operator Tokyo Electric Power Company on patrol found water leaking from a drain valve of a tank dike on a hillside near reactor No 4 at the power station, which has been shut down and is being decommissioned....
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Japan to Raise Fukushima Status to Level 3 'Serious Incident'
2013-08-21 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The situation at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear campus has been escalated to a level-three "serious incident," Japan said Wednesday. The news comes In light of the revelation that a storage tank has leaked 300 metric tons of water so contaminated a person standing nearby would get five times the annual limit of radiation allowed for nuclear workers in just one hour. The nuclear plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has struggled to keep myriad problems at the beleaguered nuclear...
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Q&A: Fukushima leak problems
2013-08-21 13:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: This isn't the first water leak at the plant. What is going on? The ongoing problem with water seems to be coming, in the main, from poorly constructed storage tanks. Tepco, the company that operates Fukushima, is using huge volumes of water every day to cool the reactors that once generated electricity at the plant. When the water comes in contact with fuel rods at the heart of the reactors, it becomes highly radioactive and has to be stored in large containers on the site where the water...
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