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TOKYO | Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:55am EDTAug 22 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday new spots of high radiation had been found near storage tanks holding highly contaminated water, raising fear of fresh leaks as the disaster goes from bad to worse.
The announcement comes after Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said this week contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation was leaking from a storage tank.
A tsunami crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi power plant north of Tokyo on March 11, 2011, causing fuel-rod meltdowns at three reactors, radioactive contamination of air, sea and food and triggering the evacuation of 160,000 people.
It was the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 and no one seems to know how to bring the crisis to an end.
In an inspection carried out following the revelation of the leakage, high radiation readings - 100 millisieverts per hour and 70 millisieverts per hour - were recorded at the bottom of two tanks in a different part of the plant, Tepco said.
Although no puddles were found nearby and there were no noticeable changes in water levels in the tanks, the possibility of stored water having leaked out cannot be ruled out, a Tokyo Electric spokesman said.
The confirmed leakage prompted Japan's nuclear watchdog to say it feared the disaster was "in some respect" beyond Tepco's ability to cope.
The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday it viewed the situation at Fukushima "seriously" and was ready to help if called upon.
China said it was "shocked" to hear contaminated water was still leaking from the plant, and urged Japan to provide information "in a timely, thorough and accurate way". (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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- The problems at Fukushima appear to be ongoing and sort of never ending in nature. This makes me think that Fukushima in the long run will be much worse than Chernobyl in regard to what it will do to not only the water table in the Fukushima area but also in what it is going to do long term to the ocean there as well. I'm thinking there IS NO WAY to stop this unless hundreds of people were to dig into the ground to try to stop this and likely die from that and even then it likely won't end. I think likely we have finally run into an insurmountable problem in regard to a nuclear power plant. I don't think anyone can fix this now ever because it just keeps on going down into the ground like all meltdowns. I think with this one the human race is screwed in regard to nuclear power plants built near water whether that be ocean or river or lake. Likely it will be the first unending disaster of many more in the future 100 or more years as old nuclear power plants degrade all over the world. As an intuitive it almost appears to be a given in the long run now.
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New high-radiation spots found at quake-hit Fukushima plant
- New high-radiation spots found at quake-hit Fukushima plant
- TOKYO, Aug 22 - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday new spots of high radiation had been found near storage tanks holding ...
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