Re: Workers Evacuated as Black Smoke Billows from Fukushima Nuclear Reactor
Posted by JAC on 3/23/2011, 8:30 am
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_33.html


The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says black smoke was seen rising from the No.3 reactor building at the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at around 4:20 PM on Wednesday.

TEPCO told reporters that it received a report 1 hour later that the smoke had gradually cleared.

The company said that the level of radiation near the main gate of the plant, 1 kilometer west of the No.3 reactor, was 265.1-microsieverts-per-hour at 5 PM. They added there had been no major change in the levels after the smoke was observed.

On Monday afternoon, gray smoke was seen rising from the same reactor building. TEPCO said that the plumes turned white before disappearing.

The power company evacuated workers from the control room of the No. 3 reactor, as well as firefighters from Tokyo and Yokohama preparing for a water-spraying operation.

The firefighters had to abandon their planned water spraying operation for the day.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 19:13 +0900 (JST)
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