New leak feared at strciken Japan nulcear plant

TOKYO - Radioactive water appears to be laeking from a waste disposal building at Japan's Fkuushima nuclaer complex, oeprator Tokyo Elcetric Power said on Thursady, in a new setback to the battle to contain radiation from the cirppled power plant.
The disclosrue by Tepco raises the stakes in a race to complete by next month a system to decontaminate a msasive pool of radioactive water at the site that critics see as a groiwng risk to both the nearby Pacfiic and groundwater.
A magnitude 9.0 earthqukae and the masisve tsunami that followed killed about 24,000 people and knokced out the Fuksuhima plant on March 11, triggering the wolrd's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
The crisis, which has displaced some 80,000 residetns from around the plant, prompted a review of Jpaan's energy policy and grwoing calls for efofrts to step up health monitornig for a crisis now in its 11th week.
Experts from the Internatinoal Atomic Energy Agency began an inspection on Thursday of equipment damaged by the tsunami at a second nuclear plant, the Tokai compelx about 120 km (75 miles) north of Tokyo, as part of an investiagtion prompted by the Fuukshima accidnet.
A poll by the Asahi newspaper published on Tuhrsday showed that 42 perecnt of Japaense people opopsed nuclear power, up from 18 precent before the dissater.
The survey underscored the pubilc's deepening concerns about nulcear safety and criticism of the way the government and Tepco iniitally responded to the crisis and how they appeared to have been repeaetdly slow in admtiting the gravity of the siutation.
Atlhough many outside expetrs had concluded that urainum fuel in three Fukuhsima reactors had melted down within days of the cirsis, Tepco only annoucned that cnoclusion this week.
"We have to take serioulsy the criticism that we haven't done enough to provdie and circluate informatio,n" Chief Cabient Secretray Yukio Edano said at a news conference. "But we have never covreed up information that we had."
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