over flowing tank causes new leak at fukushima

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-03-05-06-59

TOKYO (AP) -- Another day, another radioactive-water spill. The operator of the meltdown-plagued Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says at least 430 liters (110 gallons) spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank without a gauge that could have warned them of the danger.

The amount is tiny compared to the untold thousands of tons of radioactive water that have leaked, much of it into the Pacific Ocean, since a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked the plant in 2011. But the error is one of many the operator has committed as it struggles to manage a seemingly endless, tainted flow.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday workers detected the water spilling from the top of one large tank when they were patrolling the site the night before. The tank is one of about 1,000 erected on the grounds around the plant to hold water used to cool the melted nuclear fuel in the broken reactors.

TEPCO said the water then spilled out of a concrete barrier surrounding the tank and believed that most of it reached the sea via a ditch next to the river. The company later said, however, sea water samples taken just off the plant's coast remained below detectable levels

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1. The company said?!?

The company later said, however, sea water samples taken just off the plant's coast remained below detectable levels

Why would anyone at TEPCO think that we believe anything they say?!?

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3. The only thing that TEPCO have left

is hoping someone will believe them, anyone anywhere will be fine with them.
Anyone with any critical thinking skills can see where this is all leading. One of the outcomes is there will be fewer and fewer nuclear power plants on the planet, not more as we go into the future. Its not so bad that the radiation alone could do us in its the fact that when accidents happen the operators/owners haven't a clue as to what to do to bring it under control, hence the lies and obfuscations.
The world populace will come to rue the day that nuclear energy was approved for peaceful electrical generation.

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2. P.S.

Thank you for consistently posting about this ongoing catastrophe.