Again leaking radioactive water at the Fukushima plant

Radioactive water is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, the agency said.

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According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) - the governing body of the Fukushima plant, a worker here discovered a leak on Wednesday (June 5).

Earlier, on June 4, it was Tepco himself who claimed to have found radioactive material in groundwater around the plant.

The Fukushima nuclear power plant has been destroyed in the 2011 "double disaster " earthquake and tsunami.

Engineers have stabilized the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 "double disaster" earthquake - tsunami, but they are expected to take years to completely overcome the consequences of the incident.

Specifically, the factory had 3 electrical problems in the first 5 weeks of this year. In April, it was also discovered that leakage of radioactive water from one of Fukushima's underground water tanks.

The IAEA's nuclear monitoring agency in April also warned Japanese authorities to improve "the reliability of essential systems" at the Fukushima plant.

According to observers, hundreds of giant water tanks have been built at Fukushima to store contaminated water, used to cool the core of molten nuclear reactors.

In a new release, TEPCO said, contaminated water is leaking from the reservoir at a rate of one drop every 3-4 seconds. Experts say this refers to water leaking from factories or tanks that have been penetrating into the soil - something that the management company once claimed did not happen.

New developments will make Tepco more difficult to persuade local fishermen that it will be safe when the company starts pumping groundwater around the factory area to the sea.