Japan Radioactive Water Leak

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  Containing Fukushima's Radioactive Water May Be 9-Year Fight

  After battling radioactive water leaks for five years at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, the utility that ran it says it will need another four to finish the job.

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  Radioactive Water Leak Suspends Japan Reactor Start-Up

  A radioactive water leak has halted plans to re-start a reactor at a nuclear power plant in western Japan, which would have been the fourth to come online after a nationwide shutdown, its operator said on Sunday.

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  Fresh Leak Detected at Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan

  Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant's operator announced Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant.

• 100-tonne radioactive water leak at Fukushima, says operator

  A new leak of 100 tonnes of highly radioactive water has been discovered at Fukushima, the plant's operator said on Thursday.

• Radioactive water leaks at Fukushima as operator underestimates rainfall

  Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, its operating utility said today, after it underestimated how much rain would fall at the plant and failed to pump it out quickly enough.

• Fukushima operator says six workers contaminated in latest leak

  Six workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant were exposed to leaking radioactive water after one of them mistakenly removed a pipe to a water treatment system, the plant's operator said on Wednesday.

• Japan PM seeks overseas help on Fukushima leak

  Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country is open to receiving overseas help to contain widening radioactive water leaks at the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima.

• New leak of radioactive water from Japan's nuclear plant enters Pacific ocean

  Japan's crippled nuclear plant has a new leak of highly radioactive water entering the Pacific Ocean after a storage tank overflowed.

• Japan to spend up to $473 million to fix Fukushima nuclear crisis

  Japan is set to pledge up to $500 million to contain leaks of radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, with the government stepping up its intervention in the world's worst atomic disaster in a quarter of a century.

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  Radioactive spill from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant may have reached sea: reports

  Some of the hundreds of tonnes of radioactive water which leaked from a tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have flown into the sea, the plant's operator said today.

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  Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant leaked 300 tonnes of radioactive water

  The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant said today that about 300 tons (300,000 liters, 80,000 gallons) of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks there - its worst leak yet from such a vessel.

• Operator says new radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima

  An estimated 300 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to have leaked from a tank at Japan's crippled nuclear plant, the operator said on Tuesday as it battled the latest toxic water threat.

• Radioactive water may overflow at Japan's Fukushima plant

  The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it is struggling with its latest efforts to stop contaminated underground water leaks from running into the sea.

• Japan's Fukushima plant springs another radioactive leak

  Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has sprung yet another leak of radioactive water, its operator said on Thursday, the latest in an increasingly long line of mishaps to rattle public confidence.

• Precarious Japan nuclear plant raises safety concerns

  Recent problems at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant are highlighting its precarious state two years after it was damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami.