(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) kyo April 15 - The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is under pressure to find out why more than 200 tons of highly contaminated water was mistakenly pumped to a wrong building at the compound Japan's NHK World reported. Water injected to cool the melted nuclear fuel becomes highly contaminated. The water is then sent to storage buildings before it is sent on to a processing facility. Workers noticed the problem last Friday when water levels had dropped at a storage building that was supposed to be receiving the contaminated flow. Tokyo Electric Power Company has blamed 4 pumps for misdirecting the water to a building not intended for storage. The pumps were supposed to be out of use. TEPCO officials said on Monday that they did not know whether the 4 pumps were deliberately switched on and that they may interview workers if necessary. The officials have said little about the problem including why an investigation began a day after the water level abnormality was found. Local authorities have criticized the utility for its failure to pinpoint the causes of a series of troubles at the disabled plant
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