300 Tons Of Contaminated Water Leak From Fukushima Plant

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[size="4"]Roughly 300 tons of water contaminated with radioactive substances have leaked from water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the plant’s operator said Tuesday.[/size]
[size=1][size="4"]Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it detected in the leaked water radioactive substances emitting beta rays, with an extremely high reading of 80 million becquerels per liter, the utility said.[/size][/size]

[size=1][size="4"]TEPCO said the toxic water most likely flowed into the soil. The utility has yet to identify the exact source of the leak.[/size][/size]

[size=1][size="4"]The latest revelation came a day after TEPCO said puddles with extremely high radiation levels had been found near the tanks.[/size][/size]

[size=1][size="4"]A massive volume of radioactive water has been accumulating at the Fukushima plant as a result of continuing water injections into the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors that suffered meltdowns in the midst of the nuclear crisis, triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.[/size][/size]