Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that the priority was to dump water into reactor three which contains plutonium and is the most critical. 'Fighting a fire we cannot see' Fire trucks converged to spray water at Fukushima plant Image: AP/Kyodo NewsĪt reactors three and four, workers were carrying on with efforts to douse the reactors with water. The twin disasters sparked a series of fires and explosions at the Fukushima plant. The reactors' cooling systems were knocked out following last Friday's magnitude 9 earthquake off the coast of Japan and the subsequent tsunami that battered coastal cities. Engineers worked to lay the kilometer-long (0.6 mile) cable from the main electricity grid, which would help restore the cooling systems. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which operates the plant, said it hoped to finish work on a new power line to reactors No. The agency's decision has put the crisis two steps below the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which reached level seven, the highest rating on the scale, and at the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979.Įfforts have continued to prevent the catastrophe from escalating, as emergency technicians raced to cool a set of overheated reactors to avert a nuclear meltdown. The increase indicates that the disaster has gone from "an incident with local consequences" to an "incident with wider consequences." Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday upgraded the Fukushima emergency from a level four to a level five accident rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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