Contaminated water at crippled nuke plant estimated at thousands of tons Workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant are now struggling to drain thousands of metric tons of radioactive water from the basements of its turbine buildings. According to the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s plan, the radioactive water that has accumulated in the turbine buildings is being pumped into condensers situated in the same structures. Condensers are devices that convert steam piped from the cores back into water. Six to 18 tons of radioactive water per hour has been pumped from the basement of the No....