Tepco Faces ‘Emergency’ in Fukushima Water Leak, Reuters Reports

Groundwater laced with radiation that is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima atomic plant is creating an emergency, according to the country’s nuclear regulator, cited by Reuters.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the plant north of the capital, has taken temporary measures to deal with the leaks yet doesn’t seem to grasp the scale of the crisis, Reuters reported, citing Shinji Kinjo, who leads a task force for the Nuclear Regulatory Authority, known as the NRA.