Tepco Finds New Foe in Rainfall as Fukushima Tank Overflows
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Contaminated water overflowed from a storage tank at the Fukushima station as heavy rains compounded Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s difficulties managing irradiated water at the wrecked atomic plant.
The estimated 430-liter leak occurred as crews transferred rainwater that had collected at the plant into a storage tank, Masayuki Ono, an official at the utility’s plant siting department, said today at a press conference in Tokyo.