HAZMAT - Asia - Japan
- Details
- Category: Alerts
- Published on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 03:06
- Written by RSOE EDIS
EDIS Number: HZ-20120816-36201-JPN
Date / time: 16/08/2012 03:05:52 [UTC]
Event: HAZMAT
Area: Asia
Country: Japan
State/County: Prefecture of Fukushima
Location: [Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant]
Number of Deads: N/A
Number of Injured: N/A
Number of Infected: N/A
Number of Missing: N/A
Number of Affected: N/A
Number of Evacuated: N/A
Damage level: Moderate
Description:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Tuesday morning discovered possibly highly radioactive water on the first floor of the No. 4 reactor turbine building at its disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The company believes the water leaked from a pipe that is transferring highly radioactive water from the basement of the No. 3 reactor's turbine building. A TEPCO worker found the water on the floor of a power control room in the No. 4 reactor turbine building at 11:15 a.m. The company confirmed that the leak had stopped by about 1 p.m. after the radioactive water transfer was suspended at 12:20 p.m. According to TEPCO, a puddle of water about one centimeter deep had collected on the floor of the 350-square-meter power control room. There was no water leak outside the room, the company added. The water is estimated to contain tens of thousands of becquerels of radioactive cesium per cubic centimeter, according to the firm.Authors: RSOE EDIS
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