Friday 9 December 2011

Radioactive water leaks inside Japan plant (AP)

This photo taken in June 2011 shows the No. 3 reactor building of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai plant in the town of Genkai, southwestern Japan. Radioactive water leaked inside the nuclear power plant, but the contaminated water did not escape into the environment, the government said Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. Tetsuya Saito, spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, this nation's nuclear regulators, said 1.8 tons of radioactive water leaked inside Genkai, and the cause was still under investigation. The mishap at the reactor is a reminder of safety concerns as this nation battles meltdowns at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, FRANCE, HONG KONG, JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREAAP - Radioactive water leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan but did not escape into the environment, the government said Saturday, the latest problem for the country's nuclear industry amid an ongoing crisis at another plant.



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