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　　Government officials in Japan say it could take months for radiation leaks to be brought under control at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
( |: n  ^7 A" B/ a) }/ ~  d, k　　The Fukushima Daiichi plant continues to spew radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean and government officials are saying the crisis at the stricken plant could last for months to come.
5 p! K# n# K  i( ?　　On Sunday workers were preparing to attempt to seal a hole in a maintenance pit that is thought to be allowing radioactive water from inside the plant to escape to the sea.
　　The hole, discovered a day earlier, is around 20 centimeters in length and the Tokyo Electric Power company says it will try and seal it with a mixture of sawdust, shredded newspaper and a plastic that is supposed to expand as it sets.
) _2 c/ S* }: J5 T' V　　News that the crisis might go on for months was delivered by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a news conference.
　　Edano says he believes several months is a reasonable amount of time to expect a solution. He said the government is also exploring options to shorten this period.
6 m2 B9 _1 O" K+ U; [　　Also on Sunday, Tokyo Electric Power said it had found the bodies of two plant workers missing since the massive tsunami hit the plant on March 11.
" B9 X( ~& w- N6 _3 E　　The two were found in the basement of a reactor turbine building at the plant. They had died of multiple injuries.