radioactive wastewater

For the second time in 10 days highly radioactive wastewater is accidentally discharged into the sea.

Tepco has been pumping water over the reactors to keep them cool and storing the radioactive wastewater in above-ground tanks.

Gray and silver storage tanks filled with radioactive wastewater are sprawling over the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Tepco spokesman Ryo Shimizu says there are about 1,000 tanks of various sizes holding radioactive wastewater on the property.

Although up to 250 millimeters rainfall was expected, TEPCO did not fear any overflow of radioactive wastewater from the reactor turbine buildings.

An accident at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan led to the spill of thousands of gallons of radioactive wastewater.

An Effluent Treatment Facility began operations to treat low-level radioactive wastewater from the F and H Area Separations facilities.

A small army of workers has struggled to contain the continuous flow of radioactive wastewater, relying on hulking gray and silver storage tanks sprawling over 42 acres of parking lots and lawns.

"Right now we have a state of emergency," Kinjo said, saying there is a "rather high possibility" that the radioactive wastewater has breached the barrier and is rising towards the ground's surface, Kinjo said.

NEWS Two years after a triple meltdown that grew into the world's second worst nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is faced with a new crisis: a flood of highly radioactive wastewater that workers are struggling to contain.

The lives of Matsumoto and about 1,500 other fishermen in the Fukushima region are back in flux because of the discovery in August that 300 tons of radioactive wastewater was pouring into the ocean each day from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.