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TEPCO Plans for Storing Radioactive Water Dealt Heavy Blow
2013-04-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asahi Shimbun: Radioactive water continues to leak from tanks at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Space is running out to store the hundreds of tons of contaminated water produced each day. And the initial plan to address the growing water problem now appears flawed. That is the situation facing plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., which on April 9 admitted to another leak in an underground storage tank holding contaminated water. The discovery at the No. 1 tank may force TEPCO to change its emergency...
More radioactive water leaking at Japan nuke plant
2013-04-10 06:49:14| Energy - Topix.net
The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant said Tuesday that it had detected a fresh leak of radioactive water from one of the facility's storage tanks.
Radioactive Water Leaks From Japans Damaged Nuclear Plant
2013-04-10 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The Government of Japan has ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to fix fresh radioactive water leaks at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Leaks in three underground storage pits at Fukushima Daiichi have released an estimated 32,000 gallons of radioactive water since Friday, TEPCO officials report. The underground tanks contain water that became radioactive when it was sprayed into the Fukushima Daiichi reactors continuously for months to cool the nuclear fuel after the earthquake...
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