Monday, August 19, 2013

Operator of crippled Japan nuclear plant says tank leaked contaminated water

A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 microsieverts per hour at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Tuesday it believes about 300 tons of highly contaminated water has leaked from a storage tank designed to hold overflows from the site. Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has classified the leak as a level 1 incident, the second lowest, on an international scale for radiological releases, a spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/operator-crippled-japan-nuclear-plant-says-tank-leaked-025549782.html

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