In Japan, the official death toll from the devastating earthquake and tsunami is estimated to exceed 9,000. The latest figures were given out by the Japanese Police. Japan's domestic media reports however, say that over 22,000 people have died or are still missing after the earthquake and Tsunami. The UN nuclear watch dog, IAEA said, Japanese authorities have reported that they will measure radioactivity in the marine environment around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The monitoring will be conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. Sea water sampling from eight locations will be sampled and analysed by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. High levels of radioactive substances have been detected in seawater near the quake-crippled nuclear power plant. Japan had also ordered a halt to shipments of certain foods from four prefectures after abnormal radiation levels were found in products near the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Meanwhile, efforts to restore power for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are continuing. The power centre at unit 2 had received electricity. Work to restore electricity to units 3 and 4 is also in progress. Smoke seen emanating from units 2 and unit 3 yesterday died down two hours later. All workers at units 1 through 4 were evacuated after the smoke at unit 3 was seen. Japanese authorities said that water has also been sprayed over the Common Spent Fuel Pool. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a briefing that there was no need to extend a 20 km evacuation zone around its tsunami-damaged nuclear plant, despite elevated radiation readings outside the area. He said, latest available readings from an area 10 kms outside the evacuation zone show a level of 110 microsieverts per hour in the air, well below a level that would cause health risks but much higher than normal background levels. More than 1 lakh 70,000 people have been moved out of the zone, a virtual no-man's land, since an earthquake triggered 30-ft tsunami waves smashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex on the 11th of this month plunging Japan into a a nuclear crisis.