Tatsuya Taminami (L), the head of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, apologizes in Fukushima on Thursday. The operator of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant apologized to the local government on Thursday for a radioactive water leak from a building on the premises. "We made people in Fukushima Prefecture, and broadly people in the society anxious," Tatsuya Taminami, the head of the plant, said in apology as he met with prefectural officials. The leak was noticed on Wednesday morning and had occurred while washing the water treatment device located inside an incinerator building. The 5.5 tons of water, estimated to have contained 22 billion becquerels of radioactive substances, is believed to have partially seeped into the ground and TEPCO plans to remove the potentially affected soil.

Source: The Guardian February 09, 2024 01:43 UTC