The company that runs Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has signaled its temporary storage pits may be failing, but says it does not have another option for containing radioactive water. Three out of seven storage pits at the nuclear facility are now leaking in the latest setback for the plant since an earthquake sparked an historic nuclear disaster there two years ago. The company admitted 32,000 gallons of contaminated water leaked from two pits over the weekend. The plant’s cooling system has also failed twice in the past two weeks. A spokesperson for Tokyo Electric Power Company spoke at an emergency press conference today.

Masayuki Ono: “There is a possibility of a new leak, and that is what we are here to explain to you today. We understand that we have caused tremendous worry to the people of Fukushima and the wider public, and we apologize for that.”