Radioactive water from Fukushima plant leaks into the Pacific

Toxic fluid detected dripping from the top of a tank into the Pacific Ocean.

3 October 2013, 12:00am

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Two reports of radioactive leaks from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean reported in two months.

A new leak of highly radioactive water is believed to be flowing into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's stricken nuclear plant after a storage tank overflowed, Sky News reports.

Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Company said toxic fluid was detected dripping from the top of a tank.

"(The contaminated water) went into the drain and we cannot deny the possibility of it having reached the ocean," Tepco official Masayuki Ono said.

It is the second time in as many months that radioactive water has leaked from storage tanks surrounding the plant, which was heavily damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

Tepco said it had told the Japanese government about the latest leak.

The country's Nuclear Regulatory Authority has ordered the company to stem the flow and remove any contaminated soil, Kyodo reported.