chief cabinet secretary yoshihide suga will oversee work another the plant. panel will take charge of decommissioning the reactors. they promise to improve communications with workers and officials from plant operator tokyo electric power company. prime minister shinzo abe is meeting with his cabinet to authorize the plan. that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us.  >> good evening. as president of the american bar association, it's my pleasure to welcome you today to this special law day program entitled constitutional equality for women in the united states. i'm especially pleased to be here because i have a vested interest in the topic. this is our 12th annual public program to commemorate law day and our fourth year connecting us here at the woodrow wilson inteio

chief cabinet secretary yoshihide suga has been tasked with leading government ministers to oversee work at the plant. other government officials will be stationed near the site to improve communications with workers and people in charge of the plant. workers have been taking a closer look at tanks used to store contaminated water. they say some of the seams appeared to have failed. workers detected high levels of radiation over the weekend near the bottom of three tanks. the readings were highest where steel plates are bolted together. workers later noticed that resin from inside the tanks had pushed to the outside. the resin is used to seal the seams. it expands when soaked with water. officials with tokyo electric power company believe the resin broke down through wear and tear. they say there's no sign that water has leaked out, and they say radiation levels on the ground beneath the tanks are not high. last month, workers found 300 tons of radioactive water had leaked from one tank. they've been monitoring radiation more closely ever since. people in fukushima are angry with the way

. >> chief cabinet secretary yoshihide suga says they will do all they can, planning a comprehensive package of measures on tuesday at a meeting of its nuclear disaster task force, which includes all cabinet members. contaminated water leaked from a storage tank at the plant and some of it may have entered the ocean. tepco detected a radiation level of 1800 millisieverts per hour. near another tank on saturday. that much radiation can kill a person within four hours after exposure. >> the only two nuclear reactors operating in japan are shutting down for regular inspections. they will leave all the country's nuclear power generators idle for the first time in 14 months. workers with kansai electric started lowering the output of the number three reactor at the ohi plant. early tuesday, they will bring it to a stop. they will repeat the process with the number four reactor in about two weeks. they say a fault running below the plant is not active and the fault has not moved and doesn't have the possibility of moving in the future. operators of the ohi facility and five other plants ap