TEPCO Admits Possible Underwater Leak Into Sea

OKUMA, JAPAN - AUGUST 06: Members of Fukushima Prefecture panel inspects th well that higher radioactive water were detected, at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on August 6, 2013 in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. The operator Tokyo Electric Power Co admits the possibility of the radiation contaminated underwater leaking into the Pacific Ocean, highly radioactive water has been detected for some time in groundwater near reactor and turbine buildings of the nuclear plant. A record high level of 900,000 becquerels per liter was found in early July in water taken from a different monitoring well. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)