1. A spokesman in Moscow said the Russian craft suffered minimal damage and no radiation leaked after the accident on Saturday. 2. But some experts say it is worrisome that any radiation leaked at all. 3. Plant officials said no radiation leaked from the plant. 4. Chinese officials also had said that no radiation leaked out and described Japanese news reports of the incident as overblown. 5. For example, plant officials acknowledged on Friday that workers might have known radiation was leaking from the plant eight hours before they reported it. 6. If the submarine was left on the sea floor after a rescue, the shell eventually would corrode over the next century and radiation would leak out gradually. 7. Kansai Electric spokesman Takashi Horiuchi said no radiation leaked outside the reactor. 8. No radiation leaked from the building after the blast on the fifth floor, the report said, citing officials at the laboratory. 9. No radiation leaked into the environment. 10. Nothing was wrong with the reactor itself, she said, and no radiation leaked. |