Crippled Fukushima Reactor Springs Another Mysterious Leak

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Uncontained: Water possibly tainted with radiation pours into a drain (lower right), on Saturday on the first floor of reactor No. 3 at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

Crippled Fukushima Reactor Springs Another Mysterious Leak
- Common Dreams staff
Published on Sunday, January 19, 2014 by Common Dreams

Japanese media is reporting yet another mysterious and previously undetected leak inside one of the crippled nuclear Fukushima reactors this weekend.

According to Asahi Shimbum, citing an announcement from the Tokyo Electric Power Company, a "new water leak, possibly from the effort to cool a crippled reactor, has been detected on the first floor of a reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant."

It remained unclear whether the leak was coming from water coolant pipes being pumped into the containment unit or if radioactive water from the cooling pools themselves was leaking out.

As the Japan Times reports:

The camera of a rubble-removing robot operating inside the No. 3 building has captured images of a 30-cm-wide water leak, the beleaguered utility said Saturday. It also claimed that none of the water has leaked outside the building so far.

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