Japan Provides Updats on Radioactivity in Seawater and Tank Leakage

25September 2013

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Japan Provides Updates on Radioactivity in Seawater and Tank Leakage

The top plate of the water storage tank 5 in the H4 Tank Area at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is removed. (Photo: TEPCO, 17 September 2013)

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• Government of Japan Provides Updated Status Reports on Developments at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 17 September 2013
• Japan Informs IAEA of Situation and Policy on Addressing Contaminated Water Issue at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 6 September 2013
• In Focus: Fukushima Nuclear Accident
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The Government of Japan provided the IAEA an update on radioactivity in seawater near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi (F1) Nuclear Power Station:

• The report provided by the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Japan, entitled F1 Issues as of 24 September 2013, can be accessed here. [pdf]

In addition, TEPCO provided a document that describes the work in progress to determine the cause of leakages from storage tanks holding radioactively contaminated water, as well as a document describing the results of that investigation.

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