The Boston Globe   Tainted water leaking at Fukushima power
plant  TOKYO — Three hundred tons of highly contaminated water
have leaked from a storage tank at the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant on Japan’s Pacific Coast, its operator said
Tuesday, raising further concerns over the site’s safety and
prompting regulators to declare a radiological release incident
for the first time since disaster struck there in 2011.  Workers
raced to place sandbags around the leak at the site to stem the
spread of the water, a task made more urgent by a forecast of
heavy rain for the Fukushima region later in the day. A
spokesman at Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant’s operator,
acknowledged that much of the contaminated water had seeped into
the soil and could eventually reach the ocean, adding to the
tons of radioactive fluids that have already leaked into the sea
from the troubled plant.  The leaked water contains levels of
radioactive cesium and strontium many hundreds of times higher
than legal safety limit