18 June 2011 Last updated at 04:15 GMT 
The radioactive water will be temporarily stored in special tanks when it is removed from the site Operators of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have suspended an operation to clean contaminated water hours after it began due to a rapid rise in radiation.
The radioactive water will be temporarily stored in special tanks when it is removed from the site Operators of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have suspended an operation to clean contaminated water hours after it began due to a rapid rise in radiation. Some 110,000 tonnes of water have built up during efforts to cool reactors hit by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
The contaminated water, enough to fill 40 Olympic-sized swimming pools, has been at risk of spilling into the sea.
A spokesman for the plant operators said engineers were trying to find the cause of the jump in radiation levels.
"The level of radiation at a machine to absorb caesium has risen faster than our initial projections," a spokesman for the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said.
Earlier this week, officials had warned that the growing pools of radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were in danger of spilling into the sea within a week.
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