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Government spokesman: No continued radiation from reactor 4
Mar 15, 2011, 8:07 GMT
Tokyo - Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano said Tuesday there was no continued release of high radiation from reactor number 4 of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, where an explosion occurred earlier in the day.
He said the cooling function of reactors 5 and 6 'seemed not to be working.' The cooling systems of the plant's six reactors were wiped out by Friday's magnitude-9 earthquake and the following tsunami.
Technicians injected sea water into reactors 1 and 3 at the heavily damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant and that process was stable, he said.
It remained to be seen whether pouring sea water into the number 2 reactor worked smoothly, he added.
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