See this SBS video on the latest radioactive water emergency at Fukushma
VIDEO: Worst leak at Fukushima nuclear plant: TEPCO http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/08/21/worst-leak-fukushima-nuclear-plant-tepcoTEPCO is facing the worst leak at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, with 300 tonnes of radioactive water leaking from the plant. Some 300 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to have leaked from a tank at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, the worst such leak since the crisis began, the operator said.Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said the leak was believed to be continuing Tuesday at Fukushima and it had not yet pinpointed the source of it.
TEPCO said puddles with extremely high radiation levels – about 100 millisieverts per hour – have been found near the water tanks at the ruined plant.
“This means you are exposed to the level of radiation in an hour that a nuclear plant worker is allowed to be exposed to in five years,” a TEPCO spokesman told a press conference.
The company later said it had identified which tank was faulty but had yet to find the spot from where it was leaking.,,,,,
TEPCO admitted the toxic water might contaminate groundwater and flow into the Pacific Ocean “in the longer term”, but said it was working to avoid such a situation.
“We are transferring the contaminated water from a tank with a leakage problem to unbroken tanks, and retrieving leaked water and soil around it,” the spokesman said.
“We are also beefing up existing earth-fill dams around tanks,” he said, as the region braces for heavy rain later on Tuesday.
So far four tonnes of the spilled water had been retrieved since Monday evening when TEPCO started the recovery operation, the company said.
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