Japanese reports from the Fukushima nuclear plant confirm that radioactive water had been seeping from a storage tank into the ground. The discovery had prompted the country's Nuclear Regulation Authority to classify the leak as a level one incident earlier this week. According to the BBC, the agency later proposed raising the alert to level three on a seven-level scale, indicating a significantly more severe problem. Authorities were quick to ban all fishing along the coast of the Fukushima prefecture. This latest revelation comes...Read more »
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