Maintenance Pit News Today

Admit radioactive water leaking into the pacific ocean is several million times the legal limit. the plant is now dumping more than 11,000 tons of contaminated water into the sea to make room for more dangerous radioactive water leaking from a crack in a maintenance pit. as a result of these findings, japans announced it is setting a standard for the amount of radiation allowed in fish and vegetables. that move comes after fish caught halfway between the plant and tokyo contained levels of radio...

Dominic? >> reporter: jon, the reason theyve got to do that is because there are such high levels of radioactive water now building up, they need to remove water that is contaminate today a lesser degree out of containment pools into the ocean to make room for that much more dangerous water. of course, the big issue is because of so much runoff water now being sprayed onto the plant and coming off the various reactors, those tanks are just going to fill up even quicker, so at some point the japa...

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Of radioactive water. over the weekend they found an eight-inch crack in a maintenance pit. they believe the water coming from the pit is the source of radioactive water reaching the pacific ocean. they tried pouring concrete into the pit to try to seal the leak but there was too much water for concrete to set. now they are trying a mixture of shredded newspapers, saw dust and a polymer that expands by 50%. it could be later today before we know if it works. even if it does, alex, the plant is i...

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>> live from americas news headquarters. hi, im jamie colby. theres new and deadly violence over the burning of the muslim holy book, raging for a second day in afghanistan. demonstrators are setting cars and shops on fire in kandahar this morning, and five civilians killed. yesterday, an angry mob fired on the united nations compound killing seven people there and two victims reportedly beheaded. the violence reportedly triggered in part by a u.s. pastor who burned a koran last month in florida...

>> reporter: at long last we are trying to get some idea of exactly where the leaks have been coming from. we didnt know whether various sources of radioactivity and contamination in the water off the fukushima coast is coming from but this is the first identified leak that going directly into the sea. its apparently a nine inch crack in a maintenance pit that is filled full of water. that is where the water is coming out of. today its already sunday morning here in japan, somebody has to climb ...

Month in florida. >> heather: a fox news alert out of japan where a potential new disaster, new one could be developing. crews today finding a new leak at the crippled nuclear power plant spilling highly radioactive water into the pacific ocean. dominic is streaming live for us from japan with the latest on this. >> at least we know where some of the radiation is finally leaking from. its taken weeks for them to actually discover this. its apparently in a maintenance pit, reactor number 2. nine ...

Highly radioactive water into the pacific ocean and right now theyre trying very hard to fix this. dominic is streaming live from japan. >> its both good news and bad news that radiation is leaking from the fukushima plant, but good news that theyve found the source, at least of one of the leaks because of the past two weeks, the authorities havent known where theyve been coming from. now what has to happen is a man has to climb inside this maintenance pit where they found this leak, nine inches...

Highly radioactive water leaking in the pacific ocean from japan nuclear reactor. safety officials say the water is leaking from a crack in the maintenance pit. it is on the agent of the fukushima power plant . in libya. spokesman for the opposition said three rebels were killed by nato . southwest airlines planning to fancle 300 flight sidelining 80 planes for inspection all of this after a flight made an emergency landing when a hole ripped open the cabin roof midflight. no one was seriously h...