This week, contaminated water leaking from Japan’s still-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant made headlines.
One of the containment tanks sprang a leak and was spilling tons of hazardous waste water onto the surrounding area, about a football field’s length from the Pacific Ocean.
Now, Japanese officials said, the situation is too big. They need international assistance.
There is speculation the tanks have been leaking, little by little, continuously since the earthquake and subsequent tsunami more than two years ago. It’s never been 100 percent confirmed; many said evidence is as yet inconclusive.
