Govt focus on nuke crisis angers tsunami victims

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan: As Prime Minister of Japan visited the tsunami devastated coastal areas for the first time on Saturday, frustrated evacuees complained that the government was too focused on the nuclear crisis that followed the massive wave.

Almost every day a new problem at the plant in Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear hit captures the attention of officials - Saturday, he was a crack in a newly discovered mass grave maintenance is losing highly radioactive water into the sea .

"The government has been too focused on the central Fukushima, rather than the victims of the tsunami. Both deserve attention," said 35 year-old Megumi Shimanuki, who was visiting his family in a community center into a shelter in affected Natori, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) Rikuzentakata, where Prime Minister Naoto Kan arrested Saturday.

More than 165,000 people still live in shelters.

Kan government was frantically with Tokyo Electric Power Co. to resolve the crisis in the nuclear complex, which has been spewing radioactivity from the cooling systems were disabled by the earthquake of 9.0 magnitude that preceded the tsunami on March 11.

On Saturday, officials of the Nuclear Safety announced they had found water with levels of radioactive iodine over the legal limit for a leak of 8 inches (20 centimeters) in the crack ditch maintenance in the Pacific Ocean.

They said the crack was probably caused by the earthquake and can be the source of radioactive iodine, which began showing in the ocean over a week ago.