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Japanese nuclear plant says partial meltdown caused water contamination
Posted by Guardian: Justin McCurry and Suzanne Goldenberg on March 28th, 2011
Guardian: High levels of radioactivity in water leaking from a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resulted from a partial meltdown of fuel rods, Japanese officials have said, amid growing fears that radiation may also have seeped into seawater and soil.
Contamination in a pool of water in the turbine building of the No 2 reactor was found to be 100,000 times normal levels, the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said.
On Sunday, the firm said the figure was 10m times higher,...
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