Japan's quake-crippled nuclear plant "losing faith" in leaking water pits

[kristopher]

Japan's quake-crippled nuclear plant "losing faith" in leaking water pits
Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - The company that runs a Japanese nuclear power plant destroyed by a tsunami two years ago said on Tuesday it was losing faith in temporary storage pits for radioactive water - but it doesn't have anywhere else to put it.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it had found a new leak at one of the pits at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Three out of seven storage pits are now leaking, compounding clean-up difficulties after the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.

"We cannot deny the fact that our faith in the underwater tanks is being lost," Tepco general manager Masayuki Ono told a hastily arranged news conference.

"We can't move all the contaminated water to above ground (tanks) if we opt not to use the underground reservoirs," Ono said. "There isn't enough capacity and we need to use what is available."

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http://news.yahoo.com/leak-found-fukushima-plant-water-storage-pool-regulator-044042392--finance.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. Maybe if they had admitted how bad it was and allowed others to come in and try to help, if that was

even possible, things could have been different. Then maybe, only a maybe, things would not be at this point now.

They have spread radiation across the country trying to do what?

Catastrophe is a mild word to describe it.