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A remote control robot's gone where it's simply too dangerous for humans to go, and this is
what it uncovered inside one of the reactors of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
plant. It's a stream of highly radioactive water in one of the buildinsgs.The video was
released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company or Tepco. The stream of water flowing across
the floor runs into the building's basement from no.3 reactor. That's one of the reactors
that melted down in the aftermath of Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The water was
found to have high levels of radioactive cesium and cobalt. The levels were far higher than
what's allowed to be dumped into the ocean, but Tepco says none of this water has leaked
out of the building itself. Tepco and Japanese media have said there's a chance the water
is flowing from holes in the reactor itself which has melted fuel rods in it. They don't
know how much water's leaked out, nor when the leak itself began.