Controlling Japan nuclear plant could take months

Tokyo: This could take several more months for Japan's factory by the tsunami ravaged nuclear under control, a spokesman for the security agencies said on Sunday that engineers tried to find a way to prevent water from spilling highly active in the Pacific.
The complex Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear radioactivity was spitting since March 11 tsunami carved a path of destruction along the northeast coast of Japan, killing over 25,000 people. The final death toll is unknown because many are still missing.
Spokesman for the nuclear security agency Sunday Hidehiko Nishiyama offered the first sense of how long it would take to put an end to the nuclear crisis, which forced people within 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the factory to abandon their homes because of radiation problems.
"It would take a few months until we finally have things in hand and have a better idea of ​​the future," Nishiyama said. "We will face a crucial turning point in the coming months, but this does is not the end. "
Bring the reactors at the plant under control, it will permanently restore cooling systems hit by the tsunami that prevent overheating dangerously reactors. This task was complicated by dangerous conditions at the plant that have often forced workers to stop what they are doing.
Some new problem crops up to the complex almost daily. The workers found a 8 inch (20 centimeter) crack in a septic maintenance on Saturday and said they believed water it may be the source of some of the high levels of radioactive iodine were found in the ocean for more than a week.
They have struggled to tell where the water comes, and it is the first time they found a leak into the sea A photo released by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows the water-making view at a certain distance from a wall and splashing into the ocean, if the amount is not clear.