officials with tokyo electric power companies say an 11-person crew was replacing pipes. they mistakenly disconnected one of them. highly contaminated water spilled out and soaked through the protective gear of six workers. the officials say the exposure is much lower than the annual limit. they revealed the highly radioactive water leaked for about an hour. officials say roughly seven tons spilled out but is being held inside a barrier. they say the water contains about 34 million becquerels of radiating material per liter. they are urging tepco managers to look at the big picture and take action. >> translator: tokyo electric power company needs to improve the working environment at the plant and encourage each worker to maintain strong morale. otherwise, they won't be able to prevent troubles caused by careless mistakes. >> tanaka says tepco staff should make sure they supervise what's going on because many workers come from subcontracting companies. >>> transport ministry officials have reprimanded two low-cost carriers operating in japan for failing to properly maint

tokyo electric power company has been shoring up unit four but you know our basic concern is that tokyo electric power company is now a symbol for corruption cronyism you know misrepresentation. falsified reports it's got busted for having the japanese mafia supply them. the workers this is the same company that when they built fukushima daiichi they. leveled the construction site by they they took the construction site down eighty feet they literally remove the natural tsunami barrier that was there at the site in order to provide easier access quicker access for machinery to build the fukushima plant as well as to cut costs for pumping cooling water so this whole fukushima site was essentially leveling the natural. tsunami wall and they did it on bogus predictions that the highest tsunami that would be predicted there was for ten feet and you know on march eleventh we saw a tsunami that was forty five to fifty feet but you know it was a construct that essentially set in motion a history of false for cation including safety reports this is the same company that also falls got caught fa

. >>> tokyo electric power company is expected to post about $1.1 billion in profits for the april to september period. it will be the company's first midterm profit since the fukushima nuclear crisis began in 2011. tepco officials hiked household rates last september. profits rose as electricity surged during this summer's record heatwave. the officials also made spending cuts that including putting off repair work at the other power plants and transmission facilities. tepco aims to post a profit for the full business year that ends in march of 2014. but the officials will continue to face massive compensation costs related to the nuclear accident. they'll also need to decommission the damaged reactors and process contaminated waste water at the fukushima plant. they now want to restart two reactors in niigata prefecture to boost earnings, but regulators have yet to start safety screening procedures. >>> japanese car maker honda is said to build a wind farm in brazil. it will supply the electricity needed to run the firm's production plant. a ground breaking ceremony was held in the

nuclear regulators have approved a plan by tokyo electric power company to remove spent fuel rods fromf their reactor buildings at fukushima daiichi. more than 1300 units of spent fuel rods are being stored in a pool inside the reactor 4 building along with roughly 200 unused units. tepco engineers want to start removing them in about a week, but the job will be difficult. explosions rocked the building in march 2011 following the meltdowns at the plant so the engineers need to first check if falling debris damaged the rods and then they will use the crane to remove the a semibee blees making sure they don't get caught in the wreckage. they hope to finish the work by 2014. >>> people in northern japan are getting busy with a project that would be too busy to bear fruit. they saw the tsunami wash through their city. now they're putting their memories in a time capsule to pass them along to the next generation. >> this is the district of i wacky city. it suffered massive damage in the tsunami. lookals and volunteers from a university are working together to record the testimonies of vict

japan's nuclear regulation authority secretary has some harsh words for the president of tokyo electric power company. he's demanding the company move quickly to prevent contaminated water leaks at the fukushima plant. tepco president said to his office on friday. >> translator: you're not managing the situation at the nuclear plant properly. i'm really concerned. i'm worried that this kind of leakage may occur again. >> ikeda said he wants tepco to send personnel from other power plants to assist with the work at the fukushima plant. >> translator: i'm terribly sorry for the mistakes we have made. we mishandled the leaking wastewater, and that is affecting the environment. >> he said tepco had recently changed its system for managing contaminated wastewater, and that workers have not yet learned to use it. he said he would employ every possible resource to deal with the problem. tepco workers pumped too much water into a storage sewage tank on wednesday -- into a storage tank, rather, on wednesday, resulting in an overflow. they detected high levels of radioactive substances in the water that spille

officials with tokyo electric power company say on wednesday they detected 1,400 becquerels per liter of radioactive material. that's more than 70 times higher than readings taken the day before and the highest since they started monitoring the ditch in august when contaminated water leaked from a tank. tepco officials say they'll clean up the ditch. officials plan to assess the effects of the incident on the surrounding sea water. >>> japanese government has loaned billions of dollars in compensation money to tepco. officials estimate it will take decades to recover it. the government has issued about $50 billion worth of bonds to the company. managers are using the money to compensate people affected by the nuclear accident. residents who had to evacuate their homes and farmers and fishermen who have lost their livelihoods. government officials intend to recover the funds through annual payments. other power companies will contribute money to help the company out. they've posted net losses since the accident. government auditors say if the losses continue, the company probably won't

the president of tokyo electric power company told lawmakers that workers at the plant are overstretched. >> translator: we need to increase the work norforcworkfo. we also believe it's important to improve their working environment. >> earlier on monday, human error caused a partial power failure at the plant. tepco officials say a worker mistakenly pushed the stop button of a switchboard during an inspection. that cut power to a pump that injects water to cool nuclear fuel inside reactor one. a backup pump quickly kicked in. officials say the reactor's temperature didn't change. the chairman of the nuclear regulation authority says the situation at fukushima daiichi could have an impact on tepco's bid to restart its largest nuclear plant, one on the sea of japan coast. >> translator: the situation at fukushima daiichi has not been sufficiently stabilized to reassure the public about safety. we will proceed very carefully with our safety inspections. >> he says he ordered tepco to submit a report on safety management by the end of this week. >>> after the fukushima nuclear disaster in 2

the governor of fukushima sato visited the plant here, urging the tokyo electric power company to manage the risk. tepco officials said they're stabilizing ropes, attached to pumps and piping used to inject water into the plant's disabled reactors. earlier this month water breached barriers in tanks storing radioactive water. the company says it has more than 50 workers dedicated to the transfer of water. >>> a bombing has struck a mosque in eastern afghanistan killing a provincial governor, and wounding at least ten others. >> no groups have claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern province of loga. but the area is known as strong-hold for taliban insurgents. the blast occurred after prayers for the muslim festival ended on tuesday. local police say a device hidden in a microphone was detonated. jamal died from his injuries. he was a close confidante of hamid karzai and served as his campaign manager during the 2009 presidential election. afghan citizens are growing increasingly uncertain about the state of security as international combat troops prepare to withdraw from the

tokyo electric power company officials said they failed to investigate how much water a tank on a line of water can hold. >> we have to confess that another leak happened. we are very sorry for this. >> about 430 leaders of highly radioactive wastewater leaked from the top of a tank on wednesday. >> they agreed to revise their defense cooperation guidelines for the first time in 17 years. japan's defense and foreign ministers and septuplets secretaries of defense and state held talks in tokyo and signed off on the agreement. the american said their pleased that leaders in to go kro are re-examining whether japanese forces should be allowed to help an ally under attack and glad the japanese are drafting a new national security strategy. the leaders agreed to revise their defense cooperation guidelines to keep their alliance credible in a changing security environment. chinese forms are increasingly active at sea and north korea has updated it's nuclear technologies and missiles. the leaders also agreed to reduce the burden created by the u.s. military presence in the southern japanese p

the government has issued about $50 billion worth of bonds to tokyo electric power company. the money is being used to compensate people who had to evacuate their homes and farmers and fishermen who lost their livelihoods. the government plans to recover the funds through an annual payback by tepco and contributions from other nuclear power companies. but the board of audit says if tepco remains in the red, it does not expect to be paid back until 2044. even if the utilities' profits improve the funds would not be fully recovered until 2030. the board of audit expects the need for government assistance will increase further as demand for decontamination and real estate compensation increases. >> workers in northeastern japan >> reporter: he asked the seafood company that owns the kyoto kumara to hold off on dismantling the vessel. this is the president of the company. >> translator: the ship is really badly damaged. >> reporter: he knows the importance of the kyoto kumaru as a memorial so he accepted the mayor's request. but he started receiving phone calls and letters from

tokyo electric power company officials say the leaks of the water are expanding. they detected a sharp rise of radioactivity in groundwater in a monitoring well. >> reporter: workers at fukushima daiichi seem to have a new challenge on their hands every day. more than 300 tons of contaminated water leaked out of a storage tank in august. and they've been dealing with the effects ever since. some of the water may have flowed out through a ditch and into the pacific ocean. workers dug a well about0 meters from the tank to monitor the impact. on thursday, they detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of straunt yum and other radioactive substances in the well. that's 6,500 times higher than readings taken the day before. they'd already detected high levels of radioactive treat yum. substances such as straunt yum are transferred relatively slowly. the people in charge of the plant believe the latest findings show that those materials, too, have reached the groundwater. fishermen worry about what the leaks might mean for them. the accident two years ago forced crews up an

an official with plant operator, tokyo electric power company says crews were pumping up pools of contaminated rain water. the tropical storm passed over the complex last month. rain built up inside barriers around tanks used to store contaminated water. the crews may have transferred it to the wrong tank leading to an overflow. workers measured the level of radiation inside the tank after the leak. it was 13 times higher than the government's safety limit for releasing tainted water into the ocean. for some reason the level of radiation and the rain water has doubled since measurements was taken just after the storm. plant managers are looking into what caused the spike. >>> chinese presideime minister jinping. >> the trip is to bolster economic cooperation with indonesia which has the largest population and economy among asean member nations. this is xi's first visit to southeast asia since he took office in march. he said the two countries would establish a comprehensive, strategic partnership and raise bilateral relations to a new level according to a report of the state-run news agency xi

engineers with tokyo electric power company, or tepco, began testing one of three operational lines for alps. the system can remove 62 kinds of radioactive substances, excluding kitchum. the engineers suspended the line in june after unprocessed radioactive water leaked out of a stainless steel tank. they discovered salt and chemicals had been eroding these tanks leaving small holes. the engineers began a trial run of another alps operational line about a month ago. they plan to test the remaining one in mid-november. plant managers had wanted the system to be fully running by last month. but the repeated malfunctions and suspensions have forced them to change that next to next year. they want to build three more operational lines for alps in 2014, and use government aid to set up a facility capable of decontaminating more radioactive water. tepco plans to finish cleaning up all of its stored wastewater by march 2015. about 440,000 tons of radioactive water is being stored at fukushima daiichi. the president of tepco has been facing tough questions about how the utility is dealing with

officials with tokyo electric power company met with a panel from the nuclear regulation authority. the panel is studying the impact of the leaks. tepco workers currently check coastal waters once a day. experts say more frequent checks would provide more detailed information and allow for quicker responses. tepco officials say they'll provide more detailed plans next month at a meeting with panel members. they'll explain where they'll place monitoring devices and how they carry out the checks. the nuclear regulation authority monitors waters up to 300 kilometers from the plant. the regulators said they plan to check ove a wider area up to 3,000 kilometers. they say they'll ask the crews of ships to help correct data. the regulators want to share such information with their counterparts from around the northern pacific rim. >>> workers at the plant are tackling another problem. contaminated rainwater. forecasters are calling for heavy rain later this week. the workers are adding pumps to keep rainwater tainted with radioactive substances from overflowing. heavy downpours caused rain

officials at tokyo electric power company have asked nuclear regulators to let them store water in underground pools. >> translator: we've asked to be allowed to use the underground pools. we won't put highly tainted water in them. >> reporter: managers plan to temporarily store rainwater in underground pools. they can hold nearly 9,000 tons of water. the pools consist of holes dug into the earth. they are lined with three waterproof sheets. in april, three of seven pools leaked. tepco stopped using all of them. but they've decided to fill pools that have not leaked before. with more rain on the way, company officials say they have no other choice. regulators have given them the go-ahead. nhk world. >>> a pertinent question, so where is typhoon francisco now? our meteorologist, robert speta, is tracking the storm. robert? >> as of rain now, it's down to the south, just east of okinawa. it will change going through the day on friday, and eventually out toward saturday as the storm system tracks off to the northeast. first bringing heavy rainfall across western japan, then going into tokytokyo.

officials from tokyo electric power company say they've found corrosion inside a storage tank. more than 300 tons of contaminated water leaked from a tank in august. tepco officials say some of it may have flowed into the sea. tepco engineers dismantled the leaky tank and found corrosion around two bolts at the bottom of the tank. they believe water leaked out from the gaps around the bolts. there are more than 300 storage tanks of a similar type at the plant. tepco officials plan to replace them with welded tanks as soon as possible. >>> delegates at an international conference are working on ways to protect the world from a toxic chemical. they want to regulate the use and trade of mercury and they've set themselves three days to development a treaty. the minimata convention is named after a city in southern japan. industrial mercury pollution in the city, many got sick and babies were born with birth defects. decades later it is harming people's health and spoil iing e environment. delegates from 140 countries and regions agreed on a draft treaty in january. the agreement wi

workers with tokyo electric power company discovered earlier this year that some pools of the same kind have given up leaks. sense then they've been pumping contaminated rainwater into hundreds of tanks above ground, heading to the basement of a turbine building. but managers say those places are almost full. they say they have no choice but to use the underground pools. workers have another challenge on their hands. they found highly radioactive water on wednesday in a ditch on the compound. they say they'll transfer the water to one of the storage tanks. drills in okinawa area >>> japan's self-defense forces are set to hone their skills awe of southwestern japan. they'll practice using surface to ship missiles in a training exercise that starks next week. about 34,000 personnel will take part in the drill. units equipped with type 88 surface-to-ship missiles will be deployed on the southern part of okinawa's main island. that would put all waters within it between the range of the anti-ship missiles. chinese naval vessels bound for the pacific pass frequently between the two islands.

workers at tokyo electric power company on monday resumed the test run of the advanced liquid processing system or a.l.p.s. it's designed to eliminate materials from the water. they suspended operations on friday. they had just resumed it for the first time in a month and a half. the workers detected a reduction in the flow of contaminated water in a pipe that sends water to a storage tank. tepco officials said a loose rubber mat clogged the drain. they say workers forgot to remove it after inspecting the inside of the tank. they had used the mat under a ladder during the inspection. the plant's officials have been plagued with problems using the a.l.p.s. they found a water leak in june caused by corrosion. >>> japan's prime minister shinzo abe and britain prince andrew have launched a bilateral security conference in tokyo. delegates are working on coordinating responses to issues like terrorism and cyber security. about 200 people took part in the first of two days on monday. they discussed how to deal with terrorism in the middle east and africa. they talked about coordinating securit

an official with plant operator tokyo electric power company says crews were pumping up contaminated rainwater. a tropical storm passed over the complex last month. rain built up inside barriers around the tanks used to store contaminated water. the crews may have transferred it into the wrong tank leading to an overflow. workers measured the level of radiation inside the tank after the leak. it was 13 times high er than th government's safety limit for release into the ocean. workers are analyzing contamination levels in the immediate area. plant workers are looking into what caused the spike. >>> a team of arms experts has arrived in syria to begin efforts to shut down its kem call weapons program. they plan to locate and destroy the country's stockpile. 20 experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will talk to syrian officials about how to proceed. dozens more inspectors will arrive next week. they plan to check all of syria's weapons facilities over the next 30 days. they're aiming to eliminate the stockpile by next june. u.n. experts say nerve gas was

officials from tokyo electric power company are trialing a possible solution. the technique involves freezing radioactive water. an nhk crew was allowed into the site. the facility simulates an underground tunnel. the water inside is assumed to be radioactive. some of it has been frozen. groundwater has within flowing into the buildings and becomes tainted with radioactivity. water used to cool melted fuel also becomes contaminated. some of it has been flowing into underground tunnels connected to the turbine buildings. highly radioactive water accumulates in these tunnels. tepco officials say this is the main source of radioactive water leaking into the sea. this is tepco's plan. pipes are inserted into the tunnels along with a clay-based packer. a liquid coolant then goes into the pipes to freeze the packer and surrounding contaminated water. the ice serves as a wall to stop the water. workers will then pump out any contaminated water left in the tunnels. tepco workers began the experiment in august. they say they created a two-meter-square ice wall in about

code needs you up i'm having martin this is breaking the said well the tokyo electric power company is officially one of the worst companies in the world see there's been a rather bleak discover the case of a nuclear plant and this time it's one of a thousand tanks housing radioactive water you know this is really starting to get old tepco is responsible for what seems like one catastrophe after another since the two thousand and eleven earthquake first they lied about the scope of the damage then they had the fact that three hundred towns tons of radioactive water has been leaking into the pacific every day for the last two years and now another recontest goes poorly built storage tanks is responsible for spilling another three hundred tons of radioactive water into the ocean and if that isn't ridiculous enough just check out today's headline worker accidently switches off cooling pumps seriously oh i'm glad there's so much room for human error with such a deadly technology you know and also the point thinking that tepco has deliberately trying to destroy the planet and if you're an a

tokyo electric power company officials say the effects of a leak of contaminated water are expanding. they've detected a sharp rise in radioactivity in groundwater at a monitoring well. nhk world reports. >> reporter: workers at fukushima daiichi seem to have a new challenge on their hands every day. more than 300 tons of contaminated water leaked out of a storage tank in august, and they've been dealing with the effects ever since. some of the water may have flowed out through a ditch, and into the pacific ocean. workers dug a well about 10 meters from the tank to monitor the impact. on thursday, they detected 400,000 becquerels of strontium and other radioactive substances in the well. that's 6,500 times higher than readings taken the day before. fishermen worry about what the leaks might mean for them. the accident two years ago forced crews up and down the coast to stop working. starting in june of last year, those in northern fukushima headed back out on to the water to carry out test catches. and now fisherman from the port city of iwaki have headed out for test catches of their

so officials with tokyo electric power company asked if they could stop transferring the rainwater into other tanks. they want to test the water inside the barriers, then if it's safe release it. the regulators approved. tepco managers say they'll follow the new procedures until the end of this year. they're planning to add more pumps to transfer the rainwater. and they want to build higher barriers around the tanks. >>> european union leaders have had their trust shaken in people they've long relied on as allies. they're discussing allegations that the americans have been spying on them. leaders from across the eu are meeting in brussels, shoring up the economic recovery had been at the top of their

workers with tokyo electric power company are using technology as advanced limited processing system. it will filter the contaminated water building up at the plant. crews started it on friday for the first time in a month and a half when they had to call a suspension. they detected a reduction in the flow of contaminated water in a pipe connected to a storage tank. plant managers say a loose rubber mat clogged the drain. they seat workers put the mat under a ladder during an inspection of the inside of the tank and forgot it remove it. this isn't the first problem with the felltration system. -- filtration system. workers found in june that corrosion had caused a water leak. >>> the operator of the monju prototype reactor says it's completed safety checks it had failed to perform. monj hsu a fast breeding reactor located on the sea of japan coast. the japan atomic energy agency told nuclear regulators that it has finished checking 14,000 pieces of equipment at monju. the operator had been blamed for more than 12,000 missed safety checks! may, regulators ordered the suspension of prep

the tokyo electric power company has been performing. efforts to shore up the the building but we remain concerned that the the structure of this of this supporting the fuel pool is damaged and that another severe earthquake could cause this whole thing to fall over even despite the the the shoring up the company's done right now and it's a big concern because tokyo electric power company has already shown that it's incompetent and can't be trusted they've been disclosed to have falsified reports about these reactors themselves fukushima daichi and now what we really need is more international focus more into international expertise to come in and over see and actually be involved in this very tenuous and dangerous operation two days ago there was are port that a cyclist was heading toward focus overall by today but it won't take it down we're you know we're very concerned because of these hundreds of tanks that store radioactive water we've got. areas on site outside right now where workers could be exposed to lethal doses of radiation

code needs you up i'm happy martin this is breaking the set well the tokyo electric power company is officially one of the worst companies in the world see there's been a rather bleak discover the become a nuclear plant and this time it's one of those thousand tanks housing radioactive water you know this is really starting to get old tepco is responsible for what seems like one catastrophe after another since in two thousand and eleven earthquake first they lied about the scope of the damage then they had the fact that three hundred towns tons of radioactive water has been leaking into the pacific every day for the last two years and now another recontest goes poorly built storage tanks is responsible for spilling another three hundred.

code needs you up i'm happy martin this is breaking the set well the tokyo electric power company is officially one of the worst companies in the world see there's been in others we discovered that the become a nuclear plant and this time it's one of a thousand tanks housing radioactive water you know this is really starting to get old tepco is responsible for what seems like one catastrophe after another since the two thousand and eleven earthquake first they lied about the scope of the damage then they had the fact that three hundred towns tons of radioactive water has been leaking into the pacific every day for the last two years and now another week in tech goes poorly built storage tanks is responsible for spilling another three hundred tons of radioactive water into the ocean and if that isn't ridiculous enough just check out today's headline fukushima worker accidently switches off cooling pumps seriously oh i'm glad there's so much room for human error with such a deadly technology you know and also the point thinking that test goes deliberately trying to destroy the planet a

co meets you up i'm having martin this is breaking the set well the tokyo electric power company is officially one of the worst companies in the world see there's been in another we discovered that the from a nuclear plant and this time it's one of a thousand tanks housing radioactive water you know this is really starting to get old tepco is responsible for what seems like one catastrophe after another since the two thousand and eleven earthquake first they lied about the scope of the damage then they had the fact that three hundred tons tons of radioactive water has been leaking into the pacific every day for the last two years and now another week and ten.

knowledge and expertise plea for help comes during a time of increased skepticism about the tokyo electric power company'sability to properly manage that plant for daiichi has seen a growing number of leaks in accidents over the past few months just a few days ago tepco officials admitted their latest mistake plant workers had over filled the storage tank sending toxic radioactive water into the surrounding area are activists and environmentalists concerned with the danger of nuclear power the ongoing crisis of focus shima represents their greatest fear an uncontrollable and seemingly permanent disaster for more on this story i'm joined now by. was prime minister of japan during the fukushima meltdown and arnie gundersen better veteran u.s. nuclear engineer and chief engineer for fairwinds energy education minister kon mr gundersen welcome to the program. thank you thank you prime minister cod you were in office during the twenty eleven earthquake and tsunami could you have foreseen that more than two years later your country would still be dealing with these radioactive leaks. with me thinking this. firs

at the same time tokyo electric power company has another challenge on their hands because of recent typhoons and rains that fell on sunday. they found that water overflowed barriers surrounding