13-04-11 Fukushima - ongoing crisis with no end in sight

Radioctivity has no borders...

The new leak marks the third of seven underground radioactive water pools that are leaking since Saturday, and follows two failures of the plant's cooling system in a month.

The New York Times reports:

The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant halted an emergency operation Tuesday to pump thousands of gallons of radioactive water from a leaking underground storage pool after workers discovered that a similar pool, to which the water was being transferred, was also leaking.

At least three of seven underground chambers at the site are now seeping radioactive water, leaving the Tokyo Electric Power Company [TEPCO] with few options on where to store the huge amounts of contaminated runoff from the makeshift cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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