TEPCO admits lax risk management over tainted water

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has admitted to insufficient risk management over contaminated groundwater.

Tokyo Electric Power Company made the admission in its first report to a panel of outside experts on Friday.

The company said that highly radioactive water had been detected in the plant's monitoring wells near the sea and seawater in the port since May.

It also said that it took more than a month for the company to admit the fact because officials feared that the information would deal a blow to the local fishing industry.
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