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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Japan Warns of Ocean Contamination

Japan Warns of Ocean Contamination

Wall Street Journal - ‎3 hours ago‎
A February photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi plant with some of the tanks built to store polluted water. Associated Press. TOKYO—Highly radioactive groundwater recently discovered in test wells at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is likely spreading at ...http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-273766/

Japanese regulator urges Tepco to find source of radioactive leak

Financial Times -
TOKYO – Japan's nuclear regulator says radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima power plant is probably leaking into the Pacific Ocean, a problem long suspected by experts but denied by the plant's operator. Officials from the Nuclear Regulation ...http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-273766/

Sea water contamination feared at Fukushima plant

Arab News -
TOKYO: Japan's nuclear regulator expressed growing alarm yesterday at increased contamination beside the seafront of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and urged the plant's operators to take protective measures. Fukushima's operator ...http://www.arabnews.com/news/457671


Tokyo suspects Fukushima plant contaminating the sea

Times LIVE - ‎1
The Times Editorial: An exhaustive global survey on corruption by Transparency International, the results of which were released this week, makes for extremely grim reading - if you're a South African, that is. Deans the victim of Oz xenophobia · The Verwoerd ...http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/07/11/tokyo-suspects-fukushima-plant-contaminating-the-sea

Japanese Nuclear Plant May Have Been Leaking for Two Years

New York Times (blog) -
TOKYO — The stricken nuclear power plant at Fukushima has probably been leaking contaminated water into the ocean for two years, ever since an earthquake and tsunami badly damaged the plant, Japan's chief nuclear regulator said on Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/world/asia/japanese-nuclear-plant-may-have-been-leaking-for-two-years.html?_r=0

Fukushima nuclear plant suspected to be leaking radioactive water into Pacific ...

Business Standard -
Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is suspected to be leaking out highly radioactive water into the ground, contaminating the Pacific Ocean, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said. NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said that the recent studies carried ...http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/fukushima-nuclear-plant-suspected-to-be-leaking-radioactive-water-into-pacific-ocean-113071100156_1.html
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