Smoke at Japan reactor forces workers to pull out

Workers were evacuated from part of a stricken nuclear power station in Japan after dark smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors, plant operator TEPCO said.

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Published 23 March 2011 6:59pm

Updated 23 August 2013 5:05pm

Source: AFP

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"The workers were pulled out of the control room of reactor number three," an official from Tokyo Electric Power Co. told reporters, adding that the source of the smoke was unknown.

Engineers are trying to restart the cooling systems of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant, located 250 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, but smoke and spikes in radiation have at times hindered their efforts.

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