A leak of radioactive water was discovered on Wednesday morning at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in north-east Japan, Ednews informs citing La Tribune.
However, there is no need to panic at this stage, as no trace of contamination outside the site has been detected, operator Tepco told AFP on Thursday. It was stopped about twenty minutes after it was discovered by a worker cleaning exhaust pipes on the site.
In detail, this leak of 5.5 m3 of water (around 5,500 litres) occurred before it was treated by a system called ALPS, which rids the water recovered from the site of most of its radioactive substances, explained a Tepco spokeswoman. According to the operator's spokeswoman, this water could contain radioactive isotopes such as caesium 137 and strontium 90, adding that the group was planning to remove the soil contaminated by the leak.
