“Something like steam” continued to billow out of Fukushima’s nuclear reactor 3 building on Tuesday morning, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, confirming the latest omen that the ongoing nuclear catastrophe will not end any time soon.
The presence of the emissions in the reactor building is the second instance in less than a week.
In a worse case scenario, the steam-like substance could be the result of renewed nuclear reactions—a possibility TEPCO, the site’s operator, denied but one that could mean large amounts of radioactive substances are being released.
TEPCO said workers are continuing to inject cooling water into the reactor and a pool storing nuclear fuel.
Japan Times reports:
On Monday TEPCO publicly admitted for the first time since the disaster that contaminated groundwater has been leaking from the nuclear power plant and that the number of workers exposed to dangerous radiation is ten times greater than previously claimed.
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