New leak of radioactive water at Fukushima nuclear plant may have flowed into Pacific Ocean: TEPCO

Photo: TEPCO says it does not know how much water has leaked from the damaged Fukushima reactor. (AFP: Tomohiro Ohsumi)

(ABC/Reuters) The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant says it has found a new leak of radioactive water that might have flowed into the Pacific Ocean.

The leak from the 450-tonne storage tank is the second of its kind in as many months, and involved water with high concentrations of radioactive strontium and caesium.

Fukashima operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) says it does not know how much water leaked, adding that it could have flowed from an adjoining drainage ditch into the sea.

TEPCO has apologised for causing anxiety.

Last month, 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water leaked from a tank and some is believed to have flowed into the Pacific.

Fukushima “not under control”, says TEPCO official

The Japanese government and TEPCO were scrambling to reassure people on Friday that they have a lid on Fukushima after a senior utility executive said the nuclear plant was “not under control”.

Nuclear watchdog members inspect the site at Fukushima, northeast Japan. (AFP)

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TOKYO: The Japanese government and TEPCO were scrambling to reassure people on Friday that they have a lid on Fukushima after a senior utility executive said the nuclear plant was “not under control”.

The remarks by Kazuhiko Yamashita, who holds the executive-level title of “fellow” at Tokyo Electric Power, seem to flatly contradict assurances Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave Olympic chiefs a week earlier.

In a meeting with members of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, Yamashita was asked whether he agreed that “the situation is under control” as Abe had declared at the International Olympic Committee meeting in Buenos Aires.

He responded by saying, “I think the current situation is that it is not under control,” according to major media, including national broadcaster NHK.

Fukushima now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily

Mike Adams
Natural News
August 13, 2013

Japan’s nuclear watchdog has now declared the leak of radioactive water from Fukushima a “state of emergency.” Each day, 300 tons of radioactive water seeps into the ocean, and it’s now clear that TEPCO has engage in a two-and-a-half-year cover-up of immense magnitude.

“I believe it’s been leaking into the ocean from the start of the crisis two-and-a-half years ago,” disclosed a 12-year TEPCO veteran named Suzuki-san (SOURCE)

“There are still reactor buildings we haven’t gotten into yet,” said another worker named Fujimoto-san. “So there’s always the possibility of another explosion…”