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Highly Radioactive Water Again Found Leaking at Fukushima Plant

2013-08-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Water so contaminated that it could expose a person to five years worth of radiation in just one hour was found leaking out of a storage container at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power station, the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) reported Tuesday. About 300 metric tons of contaminated water leaked from a storage tank, Tepco said, adding that this incident is separate from reports of contaminated water leaks reported in recent weeks, which have stated that the same volume of...

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Japan: Radioactive water leak at Fukushima

2013-08-20 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Radioactive water has leaked from a storage tank into the ground at Japan's Fukushima plant, its operator says. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said the leak of at least 300 tonnes of the highly radioactive water was discovered on Monday. The plant, crippled by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, has seen a series of water leaks and power failures. The tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, three of which melted down. An employee discovered the leak on Monday morning,...

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Japan: Fukushima operator reveals leak of 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water

2013-08-20 12:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Frantic efforts to contain radioactive leaks at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been dealt another blow after its operator said about 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water had seeped out of a storage tank at the site. The leak is the worst such incident since the March 2011 meltdown and is separate from the contaminated water leaks, also of about 300 tonnes a day, reported recently. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it did not know how the water leaked out or where...

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Radioactive water leak at Fukushima

2013-08-20 09:52:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Highly radioactive water leaks from a temporary storage tank into the ground at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.

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Japan: Wrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak

2013-08-20 08:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. The storage tank breach of about 300 tons of water is separate from contaminated water leaks reported in recent weeks, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Tuesday. The latest leak, which is continuing, is so contaminated that a person standing 50 centimeters...

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