The troubles at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are far from over. On Monday, the nation's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) told Reuters that an "emergency" has arisen after it found that highly radioactive water had leaked from the plant and into the Pacific Ocean. The NRA said that the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs the Fukushima plant, has put in place temporary countermeasures to try and contain the leaks. But the scale of the problems posed by the Fukushima leaks are too big for TEPCO to handle on its own, the agency said. Shinji Kinjo, the head of the NRA, told Reuters that TEPCO's "sense of crisis is weak" and that "this is why you can't just leave it up to Tepco alone."
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4590974/Japan-Nuclear-Regulatory-Authority-says-fukushima-still-an-emergency
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