The tanks were built in a hurry, little consideration was given to quality

Sep 2, 2013 20:26 GMT  ·  By
Whistleblower says storage tanks at Fukushima nuclear plant were poorly built, it need not surprise anyone that they are starting to leak
   Whistleblower says storage tanks at Fukushima nuclear plant were poorly built, it need not surprise anyone that they are starting to leak

Some days ago, the news broke that some 300 tons of contaminated water had leaked from one of the storage tanks at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

This past Sunday, TEPCO announced that radiation levels close to one other storage tank had pretty much gone through the roof.

According to a whistleblower, these two incidents and others of their kind happened because the tanks used to store radioactive material at this nuclear facility were rather poorly built.

More precisely, they were pieced together in quite a hurry, which is why there are worryingly high chances that they will one day spill their content.

The Telegraph reports that the man now saying that the Fukushima nuclear plant's storage tanks were hastily (and therefore poorly) built is one of the workers who helped make them.

“We gave priority to making the tanks rather than quality control. All of the tanks are makeshift and more toxic water may leak as they deteriorate,” the man reportedly said.

“There are many of us who knew that this situation with the water leakage was going to happen. Radioactive water in steel tanks is a disaster waiting to happen,” he added.

Not to play Captain Hindsight or anything, but TEPCO really should've gone through the trouble of building some sturdier storage tanks. It would've saved itself quite a lot of trouble.