Japan nuclear plant moves radioactive water

The Japanese utility battling to bring its radiation-spewing nuclear reactor under control said Sunday that 1,500 more tostone crushing unitns of radioactive water are being moved into temporary storage -- the latest attempt to prevent a massive spill of contaminated water into the environment.

More than 100,000 tons of radioactive water have pooled beneath Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan. Three reactor cores melted after the March 11 tsunami destroyed backup generators, damaging critical cooling systems. The pooled radioactive water at the plant could start overflowing as soon as June 20 -- or possibly sooner with heavy rainfall. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that runs Fukushima Dai-ichi, also acknowledged it had made 1,000 errors in data submitted to the government to decide on power consumption goals for corporate customers. The wrong data are the latest embarrassment for the fumbling utility, which has been criticized as lacking in transparency in responding to the nuclear crisis...