Officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Company ( TEPCO ) have announced that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear works has been leaking radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean again .
talk to Reuters , TEPCO admitted that it plant a leak of late on Wednesday , which had likely spilled into the Pacific Ocean . The authority explained that the polluted piddle was overflowing from a entrepot tank , and that more than 100 gal may have leaked into the environ harbor by the time it was stopped .
TEPCO saysthe water contained 200,000 becquerels of strontium 90 — as well as some other radioactive isotopes — per litre . While the precise composition rest unclear , it ’s deserving pointing out that the legal limit for atomic number 38 90 in urine is 30 becquerels per liter . So , just a a little moment over , then .
Masayuki Ono , from TEPCO , admittedthat the organization just does n’t have the capability to contain the excess water at the industrial plant , which is why reposition tanks are overflowing . The spill spread into a gravid trench near the industrial plant which head to the Pacific , though TEPCO arrogate that contamination wo n’t pose a threat to other nations . Reassuring !
It ’s the late in a retentive string of mishaps at the plant : in the beginning this weekTEPCO disgorge tons of radioactive water into Fukushima ’s soil , and last month another leakwas deemed to be incredibly serious . Let ’s hope some of theproposed solutions works out . [ ReutersviaVerge ]
TEPCO Just splatter scads of Radioactive Water into Fukushima ’s Soil
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