Another Radioactive Water Leak Reported at Fukushima Power Plant
May have spilled into the Pacific
The operator of Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant is apologizing for yet another leak of radioactive water.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Thursday that about 430 liters of toxic waste water spilled, probably into the Pacific Ocean, when workers overfilled a storage tank.
The company says it was under pressure to fill the tank as high as possible in order to deal with large amounts of rainwater from recent typhoons. The tank did not have a gauge and was built on uneven ground.
