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Japan: Radioactive Water Tank Leak at Fukushima Worst Since 2011 Disaster
2013-08-23 22:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The seemingly endless torrent of scandals rushing from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima continues with the news that a serious incident is underway at the stricken plant. Once again we see that Fukushimas owner TEPCO is utterly unfit to deal with the ongoing disaster. And the bad news just keeps coming. We have now heard that 300 tons of highly contaminated water has escaped from storage tanks at the site--the worst leak since the disaster began in March 2011. Currently, the situation...
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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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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300-ton water leak from tank at Japan nuke plant
2013-08-20 09:16:36| Energy - Topix.net
The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant said Tuesday that about 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from 1 of the hundreds of storage tanks there - its worst leak yet from one of the vessels.
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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