A large explosion caused four injuries in the Fukushima nuclear power plant (north of Tokyo), where the level of radioactivity had increased alarmingly after the devastating earthquake in Japan yesterday. According to Japanese media, citing the utility TEPCO and Nuclear Safety Agency of Japan, the explosion occurred at 15.36 local time (06.36 GMT), apparently when a team tried to cool a nuclear reactor plant number 1.
The broadcaster NHK says the roof and walls of the building that housed the reactor has plummeted. The earthquake that hit the area yesterday had damaged the cooling system of the plant, which stopped its activities without interrupting the increased pressure on the nuclear reactor. The four injured have been transferred to a hospital in the area, sources said Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the company that operates the plant, which has not yet information about their status.
The incident occurred shortly after those responsible for the Fukushima nuclear plant announced that they had managed to reduce the pressure in reactor. Within a radius of 10 kilometers of nuclear installations today the Government had ordered the evacuation of about 45,000 residents, while the day before 3,000 people were evacuated within a radius of three kilometers.
Opened in 1961, the plant number 1, Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi under the name, is located about 270 kilometers northeast of Tokyo and now had permission to continue in effect until 2021. Yesterday's earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, was to paralyze the eleven nuclear plants located in areas most affected, as Nipponese down rules to these types of events .. 
The broadcaster NHK says the roof and walls of the building that housed the reactor has plummeted. The earthquake that hit the area yesterday had damaged the cooling system of the plant, which stopped its activities without interrupting the increased pressure on the nuclear reactor. The four injured have been transferred to a hospital in the area, sources said Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the company that operates the plant, which has not yet information about their status.
The incident occurred shortly after those responsible for the Fukushima nuclear plant announced that they had managed to reduce the pressure in reactor. Within a radius of 10 kilometers of nuclear installations today the Government had ordered the evacuation of about 45,000 residents, while the day before 3,000 people were evacuated within a radius of three kilometers.
Opened in 1961, the plant number 1, Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi under the name, is located about 270 kilometers northeast of Tokyo and now had permission to continue in effect until 2021. Yesterday's earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, was to paralyze the eleven nuclear plants located in areas most affected, as Nipponese down rules to these types of events ..
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