Fire now affects a building that houses the reactor number four of the Fukushima nuclear plant (northeastern Japan) due to combustion of hydrogen, according to the Japanese Government. This adds to the problems that have occurred in reactor one, two and three of the number one plant in Fukushima (Daiichi), which has caused three explosions on Saturday, the last of them today, because of the devastating impact Friday's earthquake in Japan.
According to Japanese government spokesman, Yukio Edan, the fire that threatens to reactor number four is still active and nuclear plant equipment are trying to control. Edan reported that the fire was recorded in the fourth floor of the building that houses the reactor number four and some objects fell to the structure of the reactor, which has already used fuel rods and was not running.
Earlier, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, acknowledged that increase the potential for radiation leaks at the plant Daiichi, while the operating company, TEPCO, does not rule out mergers reactor core due to overheating. According to Edan, radiation levels in the vicinity of reactor number four hundred times beyond the legal limit in the reactor while the figure is number three and 400 times the recommended ceiling.
In the number one nuclear plant in Fukushima are only 50 employees, after the bulk of employees, about 800, have been evacuated, while the government has asked residents in a radius of between 20 and 30 km around the central to stay home and close the windows. Today there was an explosion early in the structure that protects the Daiichi reactor number two, the third since Saturday.
Before the explosions occurred in the secondary containment of reactor number one, on Saturday, and number three, yesterday, without, as the Japanese government, affect her core. The prime minister urged calm in the Japanese population growing problems at the plant in Fukushima, which have alarmed the world by fear of a nuclear emergency.
Yesterday, however, the UN nuclear agency (IAEA) sent a message of reassurance, saying that the radiation emitted from Fukushima hitherto were limited. 
According to Japanese government spokesman, Yukio Edan, the fire that threatens to reactor number four is still active and nuclear plant equipment are trying to control. Edan reported that the fire was recorded in the fourth floor of the building that houses the reactor number four and some objects fell to the structure of the reactor, which has already used fuel rods and was not running.
Earlier, Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, acknowledged that increase the potential for radiation leaks at the plant Daiichi, while the operating company, TEPCO, does not rule out mergers reactor core due to overheating. According to Edan, radiation levels in the vicinity of reactor number four hundred times beyond the legal limit in the reactor while the figure is number three and 400 times the recommended ceiling.
In the number one nuclear plant in Fukushima are only 50 employees, after the bulk of employees, about 800, have been evacuated, while the government has asked residents in a radius of between 20 and 30 km around the central to stay home and close the windows. Today there was an explosion early in the structure that protects the Daiichi reactor number two, the third since Saturday.
Before the explosions occurred in the secondary containment of reactor number one, on Saturday, and number three, yesterday, without, as the Japanese government, affect her core. The prime minister urged calm in the Japanese population growing problems at the plant in Fukushima, which have alarmed the world by fear of a nuclear emergency.
Yesterday, however, the UN nuclear agency (IAEA) sent a message of reassurance, saying that the radiation emitted from Fukushima hitherto were limited.
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