This story just won't quit. Japan's damaged Fukushima plant is now holding oceans of contaminated, radioactive water in its storage tanks. Bigger shocker: This water keeps leaking out. Yesterday, the country's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency said fifteen tons or so of water leaked. Yes, the the leak was said to be water with only low levels of radiation but leaks have been an ongoing problem at the plant, certainly a trend that doesn't make one optimistic about the health of Fukushima.

Excerpt from Reuters:

About 15 metric tons of water with a low level of radiation leaked from a storage tank at the plant on the Pacific coast, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said it was investigating the cause of the leak which was later repaired.

Vast amounts of water contaminated with varying levels of radiation have accumulated in storage tanks at the plant after being used to cool reactors damaged when their original cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 disaster.

Dealing with that radioactive water has been a major problem for Tepco, which is trying to use a decontamination system that cleans water so it can be recycled to cool the reactors.

But the system has encountered technical glitches and officials have said the water could spill into the Pacific Ocean unless the system was operating properly.

Yeah. That's reassuring.

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