Japan stops nuclear plant leak

TOKYO: Japan has ceased to highly radioactive water leaking into the sea on Wednesday of a nuclear plant paralyzed while recognizing that it could give more information about the contamination of neighboring Ocean .

Despite the breakthrough plug the leak at the plant in Fukushima Daiichi, engineers need to pump 11.5 million gallons (11,500 tons) of contaminated seawater in the ocean because they have more storage space for installation. The seawater was used to cool the fuel rods overheated.

Experts nuclear reactors has been damaged far from being under the control of nearly a month after being hit by an earthquake and tsunami on 11 March.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said it had stemmed the leak using liquid glass to one of the six reactors that were damaged in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

"The leaks were slowed yesterday after we injected a mixture of liquid glass and a curing agent and has now ceased," a TEPCO spokesman told Reuters.

Engineers had been desperate to stop the leakage of reactor no. 2, even with sawdust and newspapers.

Neighbors South Korea and China are concerned about the nuclear crisis and the radioactive water is pumped into the sea, local newspapers reported.

"We want to trade and foreign ministries to work better together so that detailed explanations are provided especially to neighboring countries," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano at a news conference on Wednesday.