Japan's TEPCO finds small radioactive leak in reactor
Date: 21-Dec-01
Country: JAPAN
Nobody was exposed to radiation and there were no radioactive leakage outside the environment, TEPCO said.
The Number 5 reactor has been operating normally despite the radiation leak in the reactor's turbine room, it added.
It was still investigating of the cause of the incident.
Japan, heavily reliant on nuclear power, has seen a number of incidents over the past decade that have undermined public support for the country's nuclear programme, which meets a third of the its electricity needs.
Chubu Electric Power Co Inc, Japan's third largest power utility, last month found a steam leak from a broken pipe in the nuclear reactor at its Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka prefecture.
Chubu said last week that a hydrogen explosion in a pipe at the plant may have caused the accident.