Monday, March 21, 2011

Smoke spews from 2 reactors at stricken Japanese nuclear plant

 onarch 21 at approximatle 11:52 smoke Smoke spewed from two adjacent reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  a nuclear safety official said, "setbacks that came despite fervent efforts to prevent the further release of radioactive materials at the stricken facility." Workers were asked to evauate the premisies after grey smoke began to rise from the wreckage of its steel- and- concrete. Nishiyama said  "thmoke was coming from the building's southeastern side, where the reactor's spent nuclear fuel pool is located, but the origin of the smoke at either reactor was unknown. The plants has been seriously damaged by the flood water and it is filled with debris. this crisis has still not been solved and the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains very serious.
The disaster has killed more than 8,600 people and left more than 13,000 missing, many of them killed as a wall of water rushed in following the quake. Ever since, authorities have been working to perventurther crisis -- and prevent more deaths -- at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, some 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo. Officals are trying their best to see what they can do to help cease this problem.

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