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More worries after new radioactive leak at Japan plant

More worries after new radioactive leak at Japan plant

Japan’s top nuclear regulator has raised safety concerns about hastily-built storage tanks and their foundations after signs of more leaks of radiation-contaminated water at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant.

The latest leak was found over the weekend at a connecting pipe.

The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it suspects there may also have been leaks from three storage tanks, because high radioactivity was detected near them. The levels were not considered deadly.

Nuclear Regulation Authority chairman Shunichi Tanaka said the small leak and possible other leaks have added to concerns about the plant’s stability.

They follow a major leak two weeks ago.

Tepco reported a loss of 300 tons of radiation-contaminated water from a steel tank on August 19, saying most of it is believed to have seeped underground but some might have escaped into the sea.

The company has yet to determine the cause or exactly where the water went.

The massive leak of water used to cool the plant’s three melted reactor cores triggered fears of similar leaks from more than 300 other similar tanks.

The tanks are part of approximately 1,000 tanks holding 330,000 tons of contaminated water at the plant, where the radioactive waste water from the reactors grows by 400 tons daily.

Experts have said radiation-contaminated water leaking from tunnels connected to reactors and turbine buildings has been leaking into the sea for some time.