Japan Plans Ice Wall To Surround Damaged Nuclear Plant
Record
radiation readings near Fukushima contaminated water tanks --Rising radiation levels and leaks at the
plant have prompted international alarm. 04 Sep 2013 Radiation readings
around tanks holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
have spiked by more than a fifth to their highest levels, Japan's nuclear
regulator said, heightening concerns about the clean-up of the worst atomic
disaster in almost three
decades. Radiation hotspots have spread to three holding areas for
hundreds of hastily built tanks storing water contaminated by being flushed over
three reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March 2011.
Readings just above the ground near a set of tanks at the plant showed radiation
as high as 2,200 millisieverts (mSv), the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA)
said on Wednesday.
Japan
to spend $500m on radioactive water leaks at Fukushima 03 Sep 2013
Japan will spend up to *500 million of public funds to tackle radioactive water
leaks at Fukushima, reports said Tuesday, as the government vowed to take the
lead in the 'clean-up.' Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will gather members of his
nuclear disaster response team to decide on the government response to stop
toxic waste leaking into the Pacific ocean from the crippled plant, officials
said. Water from nearby hillsides has been flowing under the plant and mixing
with polluted water that has already seeped into the ground, resulting in mildly radioactive water reaching
the sea.
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