.- The Nuclear Safety Agency of Japan reported today that columns of smoke emerging from the vicinity of reactor number three in the number one plant in Fukushima (Dai-ichi) in northeastern Japan. The operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), said it could be steam in the reactor while four earlier reported a fire, but half an hour later could not see flames, according to the local agency Kyodo.
TEPCO said the smoke probably came from the pool where 514 are stored nuclear fuel rods and used, but could not confirm the temperature at which it is now. The company said the radiation levels will exceed two thousand microsievert at 10:00 local time (1:00 GMT), twice the permitted, and said that reading is too high to send staff to investigate the reactor the source of the smoke.
The same reactor suffered an explosion on Monday by burning hydrogen left ten wounded, but caused no radiation leak, according to the Japanese Government. In addition, the plant also said this morning a fire at reactor number four and the authorities warned that some of the rods of the numbers one and two have been damaged.
TEPCO has been ruled out for now use helicopters to drop from them to the pool water reactor number four bars and stores used. 
TEPCO said the smoke probably came from the pool where 514 are stored nuclear fuel rods and used, but could not confirm the temperature at which it is now. The company said the radiation levels will exceed two thousand microsievert at 10:00 local time (1:00 GMT), twice the permitted, and said that reading is too high to send staff to investigate the reactor the source of the smoke.
The same reactor suffered an explosion on Monday by burning hydrogen left ten wounded, but caused no radiation leak, according to the Japanese Government. In addition, the plant also said this morning a fire at reactor number four and the authorities warned that some of the rods of the numbers one and two have been damaged.
TEPCO has been ruled out for now use helicopters to drop from them to the pool water reactor number four bars and stores used.
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