Fukushima alert level may be raised
Japan’s nuclear watchdog is proposing raising the risk level of the leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from “an anomaly” to a “serious incident.”
The operator of the plant said about 300 tons of contaminated water has leaked from one of hundreds of steel tanks around the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. Tokyo Electric Power has not worked out how or where the water leaked, but suspects it did so through a seam on the tank.
