Fukushimas Other Big Problem: A Million Tons of Radioactive Water
The tsunami-driven seawater that engulfed Japan\u2019s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has long since receded. But plant officials are still struggling to cope with another dangerous flood: the enormous amounts of radioactive water the crippled facility generates each day. More than 1 million tons of radiation-laced water is already being kept on-site in an ever-expanding forest of hundreds of hulking steel tanks\u2014and so far, there\u2019s no plan to deal with them.