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(Reuters) - Tons of radioactive water was discovered to have leaked into the ground from the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan's nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday.

About 15 tons of water with a low level of radiation leaked from a storage tank at the plant, on the Pacific coast 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said it was still investigating the cause of the leak, which was repaired after being discovered around noon on Tuesday.

Vast amounts of water contaminated with varying levels of radiation have accumulated in storage tanks at the plant after being used by the utility to cool reactors damaged when their original cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Tepco is trying to use a decontamination system that cleans radioactive water so it can be recycled to cool the reactors, but has encountered technical glitches.

Dr. Chris Busby On Fukushima Radiation Risk "External doses measured by a Geiger counter increased from 100nSv/h to 500nSv/h. What is the risk from a weeks exposure? Because the external dose is only a flag for the internal dose we assume that this is the internal ICRP dose from the range of radionuclides released which include radiodines, radiocaesium, plutonium and uranium particles, tritium etc. A weeks exposure is thus 400 x 10-9 x 24 x 7days or 6.72 x 10-5 Sv . We multiply by 600 to get the ECRR dose which is 0.04Sv and then by 0.1 to get the lifetime cancer risk which is 0.4%. Thus in this case, in 1000 individuals exposed for a week at this level, 4 will develop cancer because of this exposure. In 30 million, the population of Tokyo, this would result in 120,000 cancers in the next 50 years. The ICRP risk model would predict 100 cancers from the same exposure. Again we should expect to see a rise in cancer in the 10 years following the exposure. This is due to early clinical expression of pre-cancerous genomes.
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TEPCO comes under fire from shareholders over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, June 28, Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. faced a wave of criticism at its shareholders meeting Tuesday over its handling of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, while a motion to make the utility pull out of nuclear power was voted down.

The voting took place toward the end of the gathering, which was attended by about 9,300 people and lasted six hours, both record figures for Tokyo Electric's annual shareholders meeting. Shareholders kept raising their hands to pose questions to board members and express their anger.

The meeting, held for the first time since the March 11 massive quake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, was a stormy session from the beginning as one shareholder interrupted the proceedings to seek the dismissal of the moderator, Tokyo Electric Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata. english.kyodonews.jp

TEPCO president apologizes to shareholders

The president of Tokyo Electric Power Company apologized for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident at a shareholders' meeting on Tuesday.

The meeting started in the morning at a Tokyo hotel. By 11 AM, the shareholder attendance had climbed above 8,600, more than double the record number set last year.

President Masataka Shimizu said the leak of radioactive materials outside the Fukushima plant has caused severe problems such as mass evacuations.

Shimizu also apologized for the company's net loss of more than 1.2 trillion yen, or 15 billion US dollars, in its settlement for the fiscal year ending in March.

Shareholders grilled the company management. One person said critics had been pointing out the dangers of the Fukushima plant for some time, and questioned how management would take responsibility for the reactors' meltdown.

Other shareholders said the current and former company executives should sell their own assets to pay damages to victims of the disaster.

Some shareholders proposed that the utility should withdraw from nuclear power generation. How much support the proposal will muster from other shareholders is now a focus of attention.

The general meeting will vote on the agenda, including the elections of directors, after the question and answer session is complete.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 15:19 +0900 (JST)
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i imagine this tent heats up really fast. how they are going to cool it ?

@elainekirk : i heared for the football worldcup in qatar they are going to build transportable, full climatisized stadiums, so i am ready to believe everything.