KCSM Newsline August 22, 2013
Power company detected high levels of radiation inside a ditch. The ditch is about 50 meters from the leaking tank. And it runs into the ocean. Workers have set up hundreds of tanks on a hillside near the reactors. They erected a low wall around the tanks, still the water seeped out. Officials at Japans Nuclear Regulation Authority said theyre considering raising the severity rating of the leak. They rated it as a level one incident on the International Scale that runs from zero to seven. Theyre considering raising their assessment to level three for serious incidents. Previously tepco officia...