Reuters Exclusive: Barrier is breached at Fukushima says official — ‘Highly radioactive’ water entering ocean — Will flow ‘extremely fast’ if it reaches surface — Tepco sorry for trouble
Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito
Source: Reuters
Author: Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito; Additional reporting by Kentaro Hamada; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Raju Gopalakrishnan
Date: August 5, 2013
Highly radioactive water [is] seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant [...]
This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier [...] Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters. [...]
“Right now, we have an emergency,” he said.
[...] Tepco deeply apologized to residents in Fukushima prefecture, the surrounding region and the larger public for causing inconveniences, worries and trouble. [...]
[Kinjo] acknowledged that if the water reaches the surface, “it would flow extremely fast.”