A new fire has been declared in the early hours of Wednesday at the reactor number 4 of the nuclear power Fukushima, northeastern Japan, where three other reactors suffer problems after the earthquake that hit Japan last Friday, as reported operating company. The same reactor had been the victim of fire hours earlier. The fire was caused again by the combustion of hydrogen and was spotted by a worker at 5.45 local time (20.45 GMT), half an hour but were no longer flames on campus, NHK television said. Also, initially said the fire tried to extinguish the fire, but the company , Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said that currently the level of radioactivity is too high to send their employees there . The fire affected the outer barrier of the structure that protects the reactor, TEPCO spokesman said, Hajimi Motujuku . For the technical are concerned temperature increase near the core, are presented thrown from helicopters seawater for cooling if the fire destroys facilities, thus avoiding the dreaded fusion process by overheating. NHK said that the radioactivity is now "very high" and is a "urgent need" to inject enough coolant in the pool in which are stored nuclear fuel rods of reactor number 4 . Motujuku said the fire was caused by a hydrogen combustion from the rods, which were exposed when they lowered the water level . Four explosions
The temperature in the pool reached the 84 degrees Celsius, well above the ideal to maintain stable bars, 70 percent of which have been damaged, according to Kyodo. The same reactor, which was off, suffered nearly 24 hours another fire in almost the same spot, off in a few hours but caused the radioactivity to exceed one hundred times the permitted limit, but authorities said there were no leaks. Just 50 of the 800 workers usual Fukushima remain on the ground to try to control reactors after the rest were evacuated by risk of contamination. The security perimeter of 30 kilometers established around the plant has also been declared no-fly zone. So far are the explosions four suffered by the atomic complex since the earthquake of 9 degrees registered Friday off the northeastern coast of Japan and the subsequent tsunami .
For its part, the Commissioner for Energy European Commission Günther Oettinger, has described as "apocalyptic" the accident in the Fukushima nuclear power and said that "almost everything is out of control " in that plant. "There has been talk of apocalypse and I believe that this word is particularly well chosen," said Oettinger in testimony before the Energy Committee of Parliament. The sheriff said "very concerned" about what is happening in the last hours in central Fukushima considering that "almost everything is out of control."
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