Tokyo Electric Says Radioactive Water Leaking Into Sea Near Plant

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said radioactive water is draining into the sea from a power cable storage pit at its stricken nuclear plant, and it will try using a special polymer to stop the leak later today.

Work to inject the polymer through a pipe connected to the pit will start this afternoon after appropriate checks, Naoki Tsunoda, a company spokesman, said by phone. Tokyo Electric, known as Tepco, also said it had found the bodies of two workers at the plant that have been missing since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.