Tanks for Radioactive Water Nearly Full at Fukushima Plant

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant says temporary containers holding radioactive water will be full by the end of the week.

Tokyo Electric Power Company said Monday that it will take until mid-June to build a faciliy that can decontaminate the water and reuse it in the plant.

The water has been pumped out of reactors that were sprayed to cool them down in an attempt to contain the nuclear distaster triggered by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami in northwestern Japan.

Also Monday, international nuclear experts began arriving in Japan to probe the causes of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and make recommendations to prevent future accidents.




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Reactor No. 3: ‘Japan reports more radiation leakage’

At least 250 tons of radioactive water spilled into the Pacific Ocean from Japan’s earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, officials said.

It has pretty much turned into a giant fustercluck.

And all their water will either soak into the ground, or follow the holes made by the meltdown into the earth, or simply flow into the ocean.