According to quotes from workers who had built the water storage tanks at the Fukushima plant - the storage tank construction was slipshod. They hired workers who weren't construction workers - they hired people like bus drivers.
“I must say our tank assembly was slipshod work. I’m sure that’s why
tanks are leaking already,” Uechi, 48, told The Associated Press from
his hometown on Okinawa. “I feel nervous every time an earthquake shakes
the area.”
“We were in an emergency and just had to build as many tanks as quickly
as possible, and their quality is at bare minimum,” said Teruaki
Kobayashi, an official in charge of facility control for the plant
operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Leaks and other flaws found in several tanks have raised concerns about
further and more damaging failures, particularly if another big
earthquake, tsunami or typhoon hits. The plant suffered a triple
meltdown after Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The plant has more than 1,000 tanks and other containers storing 370,000
tons of partially treated but still highly contaminated water. About
one-third of the containers are easy-to-assemble steel tanks with
rubber-sponge seams tightened with bolts; they were always considered a
stopgap measure. The other tanks are considered sturdier.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/fukushima-water-storage-tanks-flawed-workers-say
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