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Another storage of radioactive water at the plant «Fukushima-1» could leak, ITAR-TASS . This was reported today operator station «Tokyo Electric Power» /TEPKO /, however, stressed that the amount of leaked water is extremely small.
This is the second incident of leakage of radioactive water at the plant «Fukushima-1» in the last few days. On the first «Tokyo Electric Power» reported on Friday. Then out of the tank leaked more than 167 tons of radioactive water, which, however, did not exceed one and a half percent of the total. TEPKO experts stressing that in the ocean, this water was not hit, but remained in the soil. On Saturday morning, the metropolitan power company workers began pumping the remaining 13 thousand tons of water in the other special tanks — for it is they can take up to five days. Earlier TEPKO reported that radiation levels at the site of leakage was 6 thousand becquerels per cubic cm
Will TEPKO pump water from the second store, where it is also possible there is a leak, yet were announced. All these special storage tanks of radioactive water at the plant «Fukushima-1» There are seven pieces.
In addition, last Friday at the plant again malfunctioned cooling system in a pool of spent nuclear fuel at the 3rd power unit.
Recent major problems at Japanese nuclear power plants have been recorded in mid-March. Then the power supply «Fukushima-1» was suspended for 29 hours. According TEPKO, disruptions caused rat that got into the main power distribution board the station and caused a short circuit. Specialists power company was able to solve the problem before the temperature in the tanks of spent rods reached the limit.