Water leaks at Japan's Onagawa nuclear plant
A fresh earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook northeast and eastern Japan on Thursday, April 7, piling misery on a region still buried under the rubble of last month's devastating tsunami.
Water leaked out of spent fuel pools at the Onagawa nuclear plant in northeast Japan after a strong aftershock rocked the region late on Thursday, but there was no change in the radiation levels outside the plant, operator Tohoku Electric Power Co said on Friday.
It said water sloshed out of spent fuel pools in the plant's No.1, No.2 and No.3 reactors, which had been shut down after the 9.0 magnitude quake on March 11, and had also leaked in three other locations in the No.3 reactor complex.The operator "Onagavy" Tohoku Electric Power reported that radiation levels near the station remain normal.
The earthquake caused power outages in the prefectures of Miyagi, Aomori, Iwate, Akita and Yamagata.
Thursday's quake initiated a tsunami warning of its own, but it was later canceled. Two people were killed and 130 injured, according to the national police agency.
