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Leak at Japan nuclear plant bigger than first announced

USA Today: Bad news continued on Wednesday to leak out of a Japanese nuclear plant shaken by a powerful earthquake.

Two days after a magnitude-6.8 quake rattled the west coast of Japan Monday, killing nine people and causing a fire and a radioactive leak at the nearby Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex:


New leak identified at damaged Japanese nuclear plant
Guardian Unlimited

Posted by Physics Today on July 18, 2007 10:38 AM |

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