Tokyo: Tokyo Electric Power, the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, said today that a patrol of workers had found a new area of high radiation near tanks used to store contaminated water.
The latest revelation in a statement by Tokyo Electric late today comes a day before Japan's government is set to announce new steps to address deep-seated problems in controlling the spread of radiated water at Fukushima and criticism that the utility has bungled the response to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Tokyo Electric said it had found a radiation reading above 100 millisieverts per hour on the ground near a water storage tank. The latest hot spot is in a different area than a storage tank that was found to have leaked 300 tonnes of radioactive water in August.
Tokyo Electric said in a statement that there was no sign of a water leak around the newly discovered area of high radiation. The utility could not give a precise reading for the level of radiation since workers were using instruments that only recorded radiation up to 100 millisieverts.
Japanese nuclear workers are limited to a cumulative exposure of 100 millisieverts over five years.
The latest revelation in a statement by Tokyo Electric late today comes a day before Japan's government is set to announce new steps to address deep-seated problems in controlling the spread of radiated water at Fukushima and criticism that the utility has bungled the response to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Tokyo Electric said it had found a radiation reading above 100 millisieverts per hour on the ground near a water storage tank. The latest hot spot is in a different area than a storage tank that was found to have leaked 300 tonnes of radioactive water in August.
Japanese nuclear workers are limited to a cumulative exposure of 100 millisieverts over five years.
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