Tepco says radiatioactive water may have leaked from its Fukushima nuclear plant. Paul Chapman reports.
One of the systems keeping spent atomic fuel cool at the Fukushima nuclear plant has temporarily failed, the second outage in weeks. Picture: AFP Source: AFP
THE operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant says it is moving tonnes of highly radioactive water from a temporary storage tank to another because of a possible leak.
TEPCO said on Saturday about 108 tonnes the water are believed to have breached the tank's inner linings, although little is thought to have leaked into the soil. TEPCO is moving the water to a nearby tank.
It is part of the water that was used to cool melted fuel at the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors damaged in the March 2011 disaster.
So much water was used that TEPCO is struggling to find storage space.
The plant is being decommissioned but continues to experience glitches.
A fuel storage pool temporarily its lost cooling system on Friday, a month after a similar 30-hour outage.
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