日本核管理机构的负责人说，可能不得不将受损福岛核电站含有放射物质的水排放到海里。

日本原子能规制委员会主席田中俊一星期一对记者说，将把放射性污水过滤，把放射量减少到国际社会接受的限度以下，然后再排放到海里。

2011年的地震和海啸造成福岛核电站机组熔毁，之后日本工程技术人员一直设法将冷却核反应堆的水储存起来。管理福岛核电站的日本东京电力公司的官员上星期日宣布，一个连接另外两个核污水储存罐的管道有污水泄漏。

东京电力公司上星期六还说，他们发现有一个储存罐的辐射水平升高为每小时1800微西弗，足以导致受辐射的人死亡。

日本政府官员表示本周将宣布一系列解决危机的措施。

  

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.