Through some challenges is training to help people get through challenges of their own. The people in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant have another challenge on their hands. Tokyo electric Power Company Officials Say the effects of a leak of contaminated water are expanding. Theyve detected a sharp rise in radioactivity in groundwater at a monitoring well. Nhk world reports. Reporter workers at Fukushima Daiichi seem to have a new challenge on their hands every day. More than 300 tons of contaminated water leaked out of a storage tank in august, and theyve been dealing with the effects ever since. Some of the water may have flowed out through a ditch, and into the pacific ocean. Workers dug a well about 10 meters from the tank to monitor the impact. On thursday, they detected 400,000 becquerels of strontium and other radioactive substances in the well. Thats 6,500 times higher than readings taken the day before. Fishermen worry about what the leaks might mean for them. The
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