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Fukushima Plant Could Leak Radiation for Months

   Martyn Williams | Sendai, Japan  April 03, 2011
   Protesters oppose nuclear power generation, as radiation has been
   spewing from Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
   power plant, leaking into the air, ground and sea, Tokyo, Japan

Photo: AP

   Protesters oppose nuclear power generation, as radiation has been
   spewing from Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear
   power plant, leaking into the air, ground and sea, Tokyo, Japan, April
   3, 2011

   Government officials in Japan say it could take months for radiation
   leaks to be brought under control at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
   power plant.
   The Fukushima Daiichi plant continues to spew radioactive water into
   the Pacific Ocean and government officials are saying the crisis at the
   stricken plant could last for months to come.
   On Sunday workers were preparing to attempt to seal a hole in a
   maintenance pit that is thought to be allowing radioactive water from
   inside the plant to escape to the sea.
   An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in
   Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, March 29, 2011

Reuters/Kyodo

   An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in
   Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

   The hole, discovered a day earlier, is around 20 centimeters in length
   and the Tokyo Electric Power company says it will try and seal it with
   a mixture of sawdust, shredded newspaper and a plastic that is supposed
   to expand as it sets.
   News that the crisis might go on for months was delivered by Chief
   Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a news conference.
   Edano says he believes several months is a reasonable amount of time to
   expect a solution. He said the government is also exploring options to
   shorten this period.
   Also on Sunday, Tokyo Electric Power said it had found the bodies of
   two plant workers missing since the massive tsunami hit the plant on
   March 11.
   The two were found in the basement of a reactor turbine building at the
   plant. They had died of multiple injuries.

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