April 3, 2011 6:54 PM

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Sealing a crack leaking radiation at Fukushima underway

In Japan, workers are engaged in sealing a crack leaking radiation into the sea from a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant. Earlier efforts to cement the crack had suffered setbacks.Engineers were striving to inject the polymeric water absorbent into pipes leading to a pit connected to the No.2 reactor's building, where a 12-inch crack had been found to be leaking radioactive water.Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), said two of its workers, missing since the March 11 killer quake and tsunami , were found dead in the basement of a reactor's building. The workers, who were in their 20s, died of bleeding from multiple injuries about an hour after the quake struck the plant. Their bodies were found last Wednesday. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the water is still flowing from the pit into the Pacific Ocean and that the rate of the leak remains unchanged. According to TEPCO, radioactive iodine-131 more than 10,000 times the legal concentration limit was detected in the water found in the pit.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the government would review, whether to change the designated evacuation areas once experts finish analysing the latest data collected in recent days.

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