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Water 6,700 times more radioactive than legal limit spills from Fukushima
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Water 6,700 times more radioactive than legal limit spills from Fukushima
Kyodo News via AP
The storage tank (bottom) from which workers detected water dripping late Wednesday at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.
TOKYO — Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has suffered yet another leak, spilling out 430 liters of contaminated water thousands of times more radioactive than legal limits, its operator said Thursday.
Damir Sagolj / Reuters
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant, forcing some 300,000 people to evacuate their homes. Two and a half years later photographer Damir Sagolj toured the exclusion zone, encountering a scene he likened to “a silent horror movie.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, said the water which spilled from the storage tanks had radiation readings as high as 200,000 becquerels per liter — almost 6,700 times higher than the legal limit of 30 becquerels.
Although sandbags have been placed to prevent further spread of the leak, some of that water may have already reached the plant’s harbor on the Pacific Ocean through a drainage trench, TEPCO said.
The leak comes one day after Japanese fast food company Yoshinoya Holdings announced plans to grow vegetables on a farm just 60 miles from the nuclear plant.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said following the announcement that measures to stop the leaks were insufficient and pledged to work with TEPCO to prevent similar incidents.
Fukushima has remained the most prominent legacy of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 which killed close to 16,000 people.
Following the quake, the plant suffered three nuclear meltdowns and as many as 300,000 people were forced to evacuate or voluntarily left their homes. A survey said last month that more people had died because of the evacuation process, some 1,600, than had been killed in Fukushima by the disaster itself.
Wednesday’s leak is the latest in a long string of setbacks to hit attempts by TEPCO and the Japanese government to make the site safe.
The operator announced Tuesday that four tons of rainwater contaminated with low levels of radiation had leaked during an operation to transfer water between holding tanks, Reuters reported.
The tanks, which are used to store the excess water pumped over damaged reactors to keep them cool, were flooded by the recent tropical depression Sepat, a spokesman told Reuters.
In August, TEPCO said one of these same tanks had leaked 400 tons of highly radioactive water….more here
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