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Here ya go a little tidbit from the Article but I encourage you to read the entire piece....!

Tepco spokeswoman Mayumi Yoshida said a joint venture of Taisei, Shimzu and Hazama Ando won the first contract to build storage tanks at Fukushima in April 2011. She declined to say whether the contractors built the tank that began to leak. Tepco has not identified the cause of the leak, and has consistently declined to give details on the value of contracts it has awarded or winning bidders, citing a need to protect “corporate secrets”. The Fukushima decommissioning is projected to cost at least $11 billion and take at least 30 years to complete.

Taisei, which built the structure around Japan’s newest reactor at Tomari in Hokkaido in 2009, was heavily involved in the construction of the Fukushima tanks, according to three people involved, who asked not to be named. Workers and engineers at Fukushima have been put on an “emergency” footing to work on the storage tanks this week, they said.

Shimizu, which also has experience in building nuclear plants in Japan, had technology needed to build the bolted tanks and brought in experts, one of the sources said.

Taisei said it could not comment on individual client projects. Shimizu and Hazama Ando decline

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/23/japan-fukushima-endgame-idUSL2N0GN0M920130823

Now, so many more questions:

So, they may be able to “filter” it leaving only Tritium. I’d say they’d better get cracking on that construction.

Doesn’t Japan own any supertankers? I’d think sacrificing one of those might be a small price to pay, compared to the alternative. It/they could be used for instant storage, to buy time to build some decent tanks, and for transportation of the less radioactive water to an appropriate Pacific release point.

Since they claim they can filter it, does that mean the radioactivity is not bonded to the water molecules? Would air-temperature evaporation allow water vapor to escape leaving the concentrated radioactive material behind?