TOKYO | Sat Apr 2, 2011 9: 38 to the EDT
Tokyo (Reuters) - Prime Minister of Japan made his first visit to the country's tsunami-ravaged region on Saturday as officials debate to end the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl said they may have discovered why radiation into the sea were leaking has.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) (9501.T) said it had found a crack in a concrete pit, when his No. 2 reactor in Fukushima, the water was leaking measuring 1,000 millisieverts radiation per hour.
"With radiation levels is rising in the sea water near we have plant, which attempts, confirm the reason why, and in this context, this could be a source," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, Deputy Head of the nuclear and industrial safety agency (NISA).
It shows show, however: "we can not really say for certain, until we have studied the results."
TEPCO pouring concrete into the pit, to stop the leak has begun, he said.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan spoke to refugees living in a makeshift camp in the fishing village of Rikuzentakata, destroyed by the tsunami which met on 11 March when Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake left 28,000 dead and missing.
"It is kind of a long battle, but the Government will work hard with you together until the end." I would like to do their best, also "Kyodo News Agency Kan tell a survivor in a school, which is now an evacuation protection of Japan's northeastern coast shattered."
But some survivors were angry to visit Kan three weeks, the Government was accused of doing little, to you to rebuild their lives under the twisted rubble.
"The timing of his visit too late," said Ryoko Otsubo. "I wish, he had visited this place before." I wanted him to see the mountains of rubble where there no roads. "Now, the streets are clean."
Despite its tsunami dykes Rikuzentaka was flattened in a wasteland of mud and rubble and most of its 23,000 inhabitants killed or injured, many of the waves swept away.
"A person who used a house near the coast have told me"Where I should build a House after this?", so I promoted this person and said support the Government until the end," Kan told reporters.
Unpopular and under pressure to quit or call a snap poll before the cataclysm, Kan was criticized for his management of Japan's humanitarian and nuclear crisis and his leadership in question remains.
"There are some evacuation centres that lack electricity and water." There are people who even go can search for the dead. I want him attention, "Kyodo Kazuo SATO, a 45-year-old fisherman, quoted saying as."
Kan later entered that zone 20 kilometres (12 miles) a sports facility serves evacuation and visited J village just inside the zone, trying as the headquarters for emergency teams, plant cool the six reactor Fukushima Daiichi.
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