In Japan, workers continue to pump out contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from the quake- hit Fukushima nuclear facility. Authorities today said radioactive iodine several million times the legal limit was detected in seawater near the plant but insisted that it posed no major health risk. Plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company which last week said that contaminated water was leaking from a cracked concrete pit near the No.2 reactor, found that radiation level in seawater samples was 7.5 milliontimes the maximum allowable limit. The utility firm said the samples taken near the water intake of the No.2 reactor on Saturday last contained 300,000 becquerels of iodine 131 per cubic cm, or 7.5 million times the legal limit.It said the figure had dropped to 200,000 becquerels per cubic cm, or 5 million times the legal limit, in samples taken yesterday. The samples taken yesterday also contained 1.1 million times the legal limit of cesium 137.60,000 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to be flooding the basement of reactor buildings and underground trenches at the damaged Fukushima nuclear.TEPCO had yesterday begun dumping low-level radioactive water as an emergency step to secure room for storage of more highly contaminated water.Nearly 30,000 people were reported dead or missing after the nine magnitude-quake and tsunami that hit Japan three weeks ago severely damaging the Fukushima Nuclear complex.