News From Japan: Water is leaking from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

Some unsettling news out of Japan via ENENews.com:

NHK WORLD, Aug 19, 2013: Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company say they will study storage tanks to find out why radioactive water is leaking from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The officials said on Monday about 120 liters of highly-radioactive water had leaked from a tank near the number 4 reactor. They detected 100 millisieverts per hour of radiation on the surface of puddles near the tanks. The maximum annual exposure limit for nuclear plant workers is 50 millisieverts. […] Officials from the Nuclear Regulation Authority assessed the problem as a level one incident on an 8-point international scale.

Also see this: ‘Water Storage Nightmare’: Bolts in Fukushima tanks will corrode in just a few years, plant workers reveal — “Tepco says it doesn’t know how long tanks will hold” -Reuters

Ugh… Not good at all. 🙁