Leakage of highly radioactive water at Fukushima plant

Leakage of highly radioactive water at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Masayuki Ono, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman, announces at a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2013, that an estimated 300 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the water storage tanks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, making it the worst leakage incident from such containers.

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