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Fourth
n-reactor on fire in Japan, PM tells people to leave area
Tuesday March 15, 2011 11:13:29 AM,
IANS
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Tokyo: A fire broke
out at a fourth reactor in Japan's Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant
Tuesday, hours after a blast ripped its third reactor. As the
government said that radiation released by the damaged reactors
was high enough to harm human health, Prime Minister Naoto Kan
warned that further leaks were possible.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan called on citizens residing within a 20
km radius around the reactor to immediately leave the place and
those living beyond that distance to stay in their houses, but to
shut windows and doors, RIA Novosti reported.
"I sincerely ask all citizens within the 20 km distance from the
reactor to leave this zone," he said in a televised address
Tuesday.
The prime minister also warned that further leaks are possible,
Xinhua reported.
More than 2,400 deaths have been confirmed so far due to the
magnitude-9 earthquake that rattled the country's northeast
Friday.
The tremor was followed by tsunami and meltdown of nuclear fuel at
one of Japan's main power plants in Fukushima, about 240 km north
from Tokyo, leading to fears of massive radiation poisoning in the
area.
Tuesday's fire at reactor number 4 followed an explosion in the
reactor number 2 at the troubled plant which houses six nuclear
reactors.
Two earlier blasts already hit the reactors 1 and 3.
Radioactivity around the damaged nuclear reactors have reached
dangerous levels, DPA reported quoting the government spokesman
Yukio Edano.
"We are talking now about radiation levels that can endanger human
health," the chief cabinet secretary was quoted as saying.
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