New fire reported at nuclear plant as Japan races to avert catastrophe
By Brian Vastag and Chico Harlan,
WashPost
Tuesday, March 15, 6:41 PM
As Japan struggled to tame a quake-damaged nuclear power plant, a new fire was reported early Wednesday in a building housing one of the plant’s reactors, the latest setback following a series of hydrogen explosions and leaks of radioactivity.
The Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant about 150 miles north of Tokyo, said a worker saw a fire at about 5:45 a.m. Wednesday in the northeast corner of the building that contains the unit 4 reactor.
The company said firefighters were trying to extinguish the blaze, whose cause was not immediately known.
A fire burned for two hours Tuesday in the pool containing spent nuclear fuel rods at the unit 4 reactor. News services quoted a government official as saying the pool could still be near the boiling point.
(More here.)
WashPost
Tuesday, March 15, 6:41 PM
As Japan struggled to tame a quake-damaged nuclear power plant, a new fire was reported early Wednesday in a building housing one of the plant’s reactors, the latest setback following a series of hydrogen explosions and leaks of radioactivity.
The Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant about 150 miles north of Tokyo, said a worker saw a fire at about 5:45 a.m. Wednesday in the northeast corner of the building that contains the unit 4 reactor.
The company said firefighters were trying to extinguish the blaze, whose cause was not immediately known.
A fire burned for two hours Tuesday in the pool containing spent nuclear fuel rods at the unit 4 reactor. News services quoted a government official as saying the pool could still be near the boiling point.
(More here.)
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