The incident, which occurred at
There has been "no significant change" in the radioactivity levels in the plant, the company said, adding that they trying to ascertain the cause of the outage and its impact.
A worker involved in the excavation work outside the plant was injured and taken to the hospital,
The worker is conscious and is not contaminated, the company said, adding that they were investigating if the two incidents were related.
The outage coincides with the visit of a delegation of the
The
The Fukushima plant, damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, began releasing large amounts of treated water into the
The water undergoes a complex filtering process that removes harmful radioactive substances before discharge.
Currently, there are more than 1,000 tanks of treated water on the plant's grounds, and the discharge process could take at least 30 years to complete. EFE
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