10 April 2013 (02:13 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1392/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been ordered to stop using in-ground waste water ponds to store radiative water. Three ponds are now leaking (several hundreds of tons so far) and some of the contamination includes strontium.
TEPCo said they used the in-ground ponds because they are not enough above ground steel tanks available to hold the massive amount of contaminated water coming from the damaged GE designed reactors.
TEPCo hopes to have new steel tanks delivered in the next few days.