日本可能將福島核電站含有放射物質的水排放到海里

The head of Japan's nuclear regulatory agency says it is possible that radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant will have to be released into the sea.

Nuclear Regulation Authority chairman Shunichi Tanaka told reporters Monday the toxic water would be filtered to bring the radiation levels below internationally accepted limits before it is discharged into the sea.

Engineers have been struggling to store water used to cool the plant's nuclear reactors, which sustained a meltdown after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. officials with Tokyo Electric Power Company, Fukushima's operator, announced Sunday that a pipe connecting two other tanks is leaking contaminated water.

Officials announced the day before that it had detected a potentially fatal level of 1,800 millisieverts per hour at one of the holding tanks.

Japanese government officials have suggested they will announce a set of measures this week aimed at resolving the crisis.日本核管理機構的負責人說，可能不得不將受損福島核電站含有放射物質的水排放到海里。

日本原子能規制委員會主席田中俊一星期一對記者說，將把放射性污水過濾，把放射量減少到國際社會接受的限度以下，然後再排放到海里。

2011年的地震和海嘯造成福島核電站機組熔燬，之後日本工程技術人員一直設法將冷卻核反應堆的水儲存起來。管理福島核電站的日本東京電力公司的官員上星期日宣佈，一個連接另外兩個核污水儲存罐的管道有污水泄漏。

東京電力公司上星期六還說，他們發現有一個儲存罐的輻射水平升高爲每小時1800微西弗，足以導致受輻射的人死亡。

日本政府官員表示本週將宣佈一系列解決危機的措施。