. . DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : COUNTRIES: JAPAN : ENERGY: NUCLEAR ENERGY: Two Missing Tepco Workers Found Dead . . Two Missing Tepco Workers Found Dead Crews hit pit leak with polymer after concrete fails By KANAKO TAKAHARA Staff writer . .Two workers reported missing after the Tohoku quake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima No. 1 power plant were found dead Wednesday in the basement of the No. 4 reactor's turbine building, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday.
.Meanwhile, the beleaguered utility's second effort to plug a radioactive pit leaking contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean also appeared to be failing.
.The deceased employees, Kazuhiko Kokubo, 24, and Yoshiki Terashima, 21, were members of the plant's operation management division. They died of shock from blood loss caused by multiple external injuries.
.Tepco said the men died at around 4 p.m. on March 11, suggesting they were killed by the effects of the monster tsunami rather than radiation leaking from the damaged reactors.
.Although the bodies were found Wednesday, Tepco said it refrained from releasing the information so it could notify their next of kin and hand over the bodies first.
.The two men are Tepco's first fatalities at the nuclear plant since the quake and tsunami crippled four of its six reactors.
.The two were last seen alive just after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck, heading to the basement of No. 4's turbine building. Tepco had been searching the turbine building and pumping water from the basement.
."To lose two young employees who tried to ensure the safety of the plant is a most deplorable event," Tepco Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said in a statement.
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