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Contaminated water has escaped from the 'crippled' Fukushima nuclear plants, report the plant's operators.


The leak was discovered Sunday morning when workers found a crack in a concrete foundation with 45 cubic meters of water escaping before it could be stopped using sandbags. Some water also escaped into a drainage ditch leading to the sea threatening possible contamination of seawater. 


According to the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the water contained "roughly the same" or slightly higher" levels of caesium as those in the surrounding seawater and may also have contained strontium. The environmental risk is yet to be assessed.