<div>Kyushu Electric Power Co. has said 1.8 tons of radioactive water leaked in the purification system of a reactor at the Genkai power plant in Japan's Saga Prefecture.</div><div><br /></div><div>Though the utility had detected the leakage on December 9, it informed local government after facing pump trouble in the No. 3 reactor.</div><div><br /></div><div>The utility was criticised by local government, including Genkai Mayor Hideo Kishimoto for failing to promptly inform about the leak.</div><div><br /></div><div>"It should have been reported properly (to the town of Genkai and Saga Prefecture). I have been repeatedly telling Kyushu Electric to change its corporate culture," the Japan Times quoted Kishimoto, as saying.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kyushu Electric Power Co said the water leaked from an area involving the pumps, but all radioactive materials were contained within the reactor building.</div><div><br /></div><div>The intensity of radioactive matter in the water was yet not clear, it added.</div><div><br /></div><div>The company said the alarm went off on December 9 indicating a leak but could not immediately detected as the leaked water was contained within the purification system.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ruled out that leak within the purification system posed a safety threat and urged Kyushu Electric to probe the issue.</div><div><br /></div><div>Genkai power plant's reactor 4 had resumed operation in early November, becoming the first to be restarted since the March 11 Fukushima nuclear crisis.</div>        

Kyushu Electric Power Co. has said 1.8 tons of radioactive water leaked in the purification system of a reactor at the Genkai power plant in Japan's Saga Prefecture.

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