» Contaminated water has leaked from a strage tank at Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant

2013/04/11

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said on April 6th that up to 120 tons of contaminated water may have leaked into soil from one of the seven underground reservoir tanks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and and may have mixed with underground water.
TEPCO estimated that the water contained about 710 billion becquerels of radioactivity and leaked through the joints of protective sheets of the storage tank.
Media Reports

120 tons of contaminated water leaks at Fukushima nuclear plant (Asahi Newspaper)

Fukushima reservoir tank may have leaked contaminated water (Mainichi Newspaper)

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