Tepco Says Fukushima Plant May Have Another Toxic Water Leak
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A new leak of toxic radioactive water, the third in a week, may have sprung from one of the seven underground storage tanks at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima plant.
The leak was discovered as Tepco, as the company is known, transferred radioactive water to the No. 1 underground pool from the No. 2 tank where a separate escape of water was found last week, Masayuki Ono, a senior official at Tepco’s nuclear power and plant siting division, told reporters in Tokyo today. The transfer of contaminated water to the No. 1 tank has been suspended, he said.