mobanmarketIn the latest setback of the spiraling crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, operator TEPCO announced on Thursday that it had discovered radiation hotspots near contaminated water storage tanks, while a nuclear expert warns that the disaster may even be “much worse” than has been claimed.
Though new leaks were not found, the hotspots detected Thursday were emitting between 70 and 100 millisieverts an hour, the high end of which is the maximum exposure allowed for nuclear plant workers over a five-year period, and the same amount workers detected in pools of leaked water on Tuesday.
TEPCO’s announcement two days ago that 300 metric tons of water had leaked from a storage tank prompted Japanese authorities to up the threat level to “serious,” and marked only the latest in a series of leaks and mishaps in the never-ending emergency at the disaster-stricken nuclear plant.
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