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TEPCO reports new radioactive water leak at Fukushima
The tsunami-battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered another radioactive water leak, its operator said Friday, the latest in a series of incidents at the crippled plant.
About 360 liters of tainted water leaked from a desalination unit although it did not escape from the complex, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said.
The desalination unit removes salt from tainted seawater used to cool reactors that went into meltdown after a giant tsunami crashed into the plant in March 2011.
The water is believed to have leaked from the unit before it went through its salt-removal system, TEPCO said.
Reports continue to emerge of leaks from storage pools, tanks and pipes at Fukushima.
The latest comes two days after the embattled utility said cancer-causing radioactive substances were found in groundwater at the plant and it pledged to prevent them leaking into the sea.
TEPCO has struggled with a growing catalogue of incidents at the plant, more than two years after the worst nuclear disaster in a generation.
Improvised fixes put in place since the disaster leave it vulnerable to problems and at the mercy of nature, with no immediate end in sight, critics say.
4 Comments on "TEPCO reports new radioactive water leak at Fukushima"
BillT on Sat, 22nd Jun 2013 1:21 pm
And the beat goes on…
The leaks never stopped. Soon that tuna you are eating will glow in the dark also.
Kenz300 on Sat, 22nd Jun 2013 2:24 pm
There need to be more reporting on the continuing disaster at Fukishima. The worldd seems to have moved on but the disaster is not over and continues today.
The environmental cost and the cost of the clean up and storage of nuclear waste FOREVER is too high a price to pay to boil water for electricity.
The world needs to move on to safer, cleaner and cheaper forms of energy production.
Wind, solar, wave energy, geothermal and second generation biofuels made from algae, cellulose and waste are the future.
GregT on Sat, 22nd Jun 2013 11:17 pm
There need to be more reporting on the continuing disaster at Chernobyl. The world seems to have moved on but the disaster is not over and continues today.
The world’s population of human beings need to learn how to live with ‘current sunshine’, and stop destroying the planet by generating more energy than what was naturally provided.
Wind, solar, wave energy, geothermal and second generation biofuels will do nothing but exacerbate the biggest issues that mankind now faces.
BillT on Sun, 23rd Jun 2013 4:05 am
GregT, I agree. The dreams of a modern world powered by ‘renewables’ is no more realistic than that it will continue to be powered by oil forever.