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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 nuke watchdog may raise leak to 'serious'
2013-08-21 14:36:07| Energy - Topix.net
Tokyo - The Japanese nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said they are taking the leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant seriously, and proposed raising the rating to describe it from 'an anomaly' to a 'serious incident.'
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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...
Fukushima leak: Japan 'working to prevent serious or fatal accident' - video
2013-08-21 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of Japan's nuclear regulation authority questions whether it is appropriate to use the international nuclear event scale in the context of the latest incident at the Fukushima plant, but acknowledges that officials are working to prevent a leak there from becoming a fatal or serious accident. The plant's operator, Tepco, admits 300 tonnes of toxic water has leaked from a tank on the site in its is most dangerous incident since the 2011 meltdown
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Japan raising Fukushima leak alert
2013-08-21 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Japan's nuclear agency has upgraded the severity level of a radioactive water leak at the Fukushima plant from one to three on an international scale. Highly radioactive water was found to be leaking from a storage tank into the ground at the plant on Monday. It was first classified as a level one incident on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (Ines). But Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority proposes elevating it to level three on the seven-point scale. Japanese reports...
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