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July 12, 2013

Japanese Regulator Says Fukushima Plant Has Been Leaking for 2 Years; Plant Boss Dies of Cancer 
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Japan's lead nuclear regulator has admitted the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant has likely been leaking water contaminated with
radioactive material for the past two years, ever since it was heavily
damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami. Shunichi Tanaka, head of
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, confessed neither operators nor
regulators know the origin of the leaks or how to stop them. Meanwhile
Masao Yoshida, the manager of the plant who led the hazardous fight to
staunch the 2011 nuclear disaster, has died of esophogeal cancer at the
age of 58.

 

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