Nuke agency says water may be leaking from No. 1 reactor container

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http://english.kyodonews.jp/

TOKYO, April 26, Kyodo

The government's nuclear agency said Tuesday that water may be leaking from the No. 1 reactor container of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and that remote-controlled robots are expected to check the situation inside the reactor building.

The possible water leakage is likely to affect work to flood the reactor's primary container with water as part of efforts to stably cool the nuclear fuel placed inside the pressure vessel.

''We are currently examining data, but we think that there is water leakage to some extent,'' Hidehiko Nishiyama, spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told a press conference in the morning.

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1. Let's hope the containment vessel can hold the weight and hydrostatic pressure of the water.

Let's hope there isn't an earthquake. This could work in No. 1, but not in No.2 that has a containment leak. No. 3 seems to be out of the woods, according to Arnie.