Radioactive Water Leaks in Japan Nuclear Power Plant
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Radioactive water leaks in Japan nuclear plant
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 8:02 AM EST, Sat December 10, 2011
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
No radioactive materials leaked outside of the facility
The plant is in Japan's Saga Prefecture
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(CNN) -- Radioactive water leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan, but there was no impact on the surrounding area, a spokesman for the plant operator said Saturday.
A warning alarm sounded Friday because of a problem with a pump used for primary cooling water at the Genkai Nuclear plant, which is in Saga Prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu, said Koji Ikegami, a spokesman for the Kyushu Electric company.
Officials stopped the pump, but at the same time they found radioactive water leaking from the bearing of the stand holding the pump, Ikegami said. A total of 1.8 tons of the water leaked inside the building, but there was no impact to the outside area, he said.
The cause of the leak is under investigation, Ikegami said.
The plant resumed power generation in November after a nearly month-long stoppage, the Kyodo News Agency reported. Operation at the No. 3 reactor, where the leak happened, had been suspended since December 2010, Ikegami said.
Japan's new energy reality
The electric company made public the problem with the pump but said nothing about the leak. Ikegami said that was because the leak wasn't significant.
"We didn't cover it up. The amount was not big and water was kept in the inside of the building," he said, saying the water did not reach the level required to report it.
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CNN's Junko Ogura contributed to this report.
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Radioactive water leaks in Japan nuclear plant
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 8:02 AM EST, Sat December 10, 2011
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
No radioactive materials leaked outside of the facility
The plant is in Japan's Saga Prefecture
.
(CNN) -- Radioactive water leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan, but there was no impact on the surrounding area, a spokesman for the plant operator said Saturday.
A warning alarm sounded Friday because of a problem with a pump used for primary cooling water at the Genkai Nuclear plant, which is in Saga Prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu, said Koji Ikegami, a spokesman for the Kyushu Electric company.
Officials stopped the pump, but at the same time they found radioactive water leaking from the bearing of the stand holding the pump, Ikegami said. A total of 1.8 tons of the water leaked inside the building, but there was no impact to the outside area, he said.
The cause of the leak is under investigation, Ikegami said.
The plant resumed power generation in November after a nearly month-long stoppage, the Kyodo News Agency reported. Operation at the No. 3 reactor, where the leak happened, had been suspended since December 2010, Ikegami said.
Japan's new energy reality
The electric company made public the problem with the pump but said nothing about the leak. Ikegami said that was because the leak wasn't significant.
"We didn't cover it up. The amount was not big and water was kept in the inside of the building," he said, saying the water did not reach the level required to report it.
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CNN's Junko Ogura contributed to this report.
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keeps on keeping on...it hasn't stopped irradiating or been contained at all yet it's okay for people to put a smile on and go back to their lives. TEPCO even has at least one reactor on line creating power. Insane that there is no coverage of this ongoing death machine's disintegration.
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Dagum
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Again? and how many months later since the last time.
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