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JAPAN’S TSUNAMI-BATTERED Fukushima nuclear complex has suffered another radioactive water leak, its operator said, the latest in a series of incidents at the crippled plant.
About 360 litres (95 gallons) of tainted water leaked from a desalination unit although it did not escape from the complex, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said.
The desalination unit removes salt from tainted seawater used to cool reactors that went into meltdown after a giant tsunami crashed into the plant in March 2011.
The water is believed to have leaked from the unit before it went through its salt-removal system, TEPCO said.
Reports continue to emerge of leaks from storage pools, tanks and pipes at Fukushima.
The latest comes two days after the embattled utility said cancer-causing radioactive substances were found in groundwater at the plant and it pledged to prevent them leaking into the sea.
TEPCO has struggled with a growing catalogue of incidents at the plant, more than two years after the worst nuclear disaster in a generation.
More than 18,000 people died when the towering tsunami smashed into Japan’s northeast in March 2011 setting off the crisis at Fukushima.
Improvised fixes put in place since the disaster leave it vulnerable to problems and at the mercy of nature, with no immediate end in sight, critics say.
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Hmmm Journal she doesn’t even speak one word and appears on screen for all of one second in Planes, Train and Automobiles !
Yes, I rather think the headline should be “Actress Diana Douglas of Kirk Douglas’s first wife fame…”
An article on this but nothing on Nicholas Winton passing away earlier in the week??
Yeah, because risking your life to single handedly save the lives of 669 Jewish children from certain death and then being so humble about it that your wife only discovers about it in a scrapbook in the attic nearly 50 years later doesn’t warrant mention.
Journal really scraping the barrel for stories. Tine to delete app maybe
Married three times – to her second husband for thirty six years, still married to her third husband when she died, yet still goes by her famous first husbands surname! – way to inflict an inferiority complex!!!!!
What character did she play in trains planes?
She played Steve Martin’s mother or mother in law. You see her for a micro second at the end.
No wonder i cant picture her in it.
A pilot .
Gobble gobble!
Is the headline a joke
I thought michel Douglas was 92
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