Steam rising from a destroyed building with a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Thursday.
Practical, widely known as the Tokyo Electric Power Company said the level of radioactivity around the plant remains unchanged, it is still looking into what triggered the emissions.
"We think this may be the construction of reactors rain, and through it the way down in the main container, which is hot, evaporated to produce steam, said:" The Tokyo Electric Power Company spokesman Yoshida Maymi, it was still investigating the matter.
Each reactor is surrounded by a main storage container. This is four to eight inches thick hardened steel. It provides the most critical line of defense from the reactor radiation leak.
In 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami killed nearly 20,000 people died, and in the 25 years set off the world's worst nuclear crisis in Fukushima destroyed reactor meltdown led to hydrogen explosions and radiation leaks to the sea and air.
AM 8:20 (2320 GMT Wednesday), by a subcontractor who shot the destroyed building and prepare to remove debris from the site of steam rising from the No. 3 reactor building was found. It is still visible about two hours later, Yoshida said.
The latest findings underscore the difficulties facing Tokyo Electric Power Company ravaged plant in trying to keep control. About a week ago, a huge spike of radioactive cesium detected groundwater 25 meters from the sea.
Operators have the damaged reactor water rinse, let them cool for more than two years, but the contaminated water has been established in an Olympic-size swimming pool weekly rates.
In April, Tokyo Electric Power Company warned that it could run out of space to store water, and asked to describe their low radiation levels around the plant, groundwater to the sea through the "bypass" approval channels. Local fishermen objected to the proposal.
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