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Japan warned of a possible radiation leak on Saturday as authorities battled
to contain rising pressure at two nuclear plants damaged by a massive
earthquake, but said thousands of residents in the area had already been
moved out of harm's way.
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Japan warned of a possible radiation leak on Saturday as authorities battled
to contain rising pressure at two nuclear plants damaged by a massive
earthquake, but said thousands of residents in the area had already been
moved out of harm's way.
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Pressure was building in reactors of two plants at Tokyo Electric Power Co's
Fukushima facility, located some 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo. At one
of them, the Daiichi plant, pressure was set to released soon, which could
result in a radiation leak, officials said.
"It's possible that radioactive material in the reactor vessel could leak outside
but the amount is expected to be small, and the wind blowing toward the sea
will be considered," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news
conference.
"Residents are safe after those within a 3 km radius were evacuated and
those within a 10 km radius are staying indoors, so we want people to be
calm," he added.
A trade ministry official said that TEPCO was also considering releasing
pressure at its other plant, the Daini plant.
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Some 3,000 people who live within a 3 km radius of the plant had been
evacuated, Kyodo news agency said.
Pressure at one Daiichi reactor may have risen to 2.1 times the designed
capacity, the trade ministry said. Media also said the radiation level was rising in the turbine building.
Preparatory work for the releasing of the pressure was expected to take
time, Kyodo reported. Radiation levels outside the main gate of the plant
were eight times normal levels.
The cooling problems at the Japanese plant raised fears of a repeat of 1979's
Three Mile Island accident, the most serious in the history of the U.S.
nuclear power industry. However, experts said the situation was, so far, less
serious.
Equipment malfunctions, design problems and human error led to a partial
meltdown of the reactor core at the Three Mile Island plant, but only minute
amounts of dangerous radioactive gases were released.
"The situation is still several stages away from Three Mile Island when the
reactor container ceased to function as it should," said Tomoko Murakami,
leader of the nuclear energy group at Japan's Institute of Energy Economics.
Japan informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the quake
and tsunami cut the supply of off-site power to the plant and diesel
generators intended to provide back-up electricity to the cooling system.
The Union of Concerned Scientists, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, said
this power failure resulted in one of the most serious conditions that can
affect a nuclear plant -- a station blackout -- during which off-site power and
on-site emergency alternating current (AC) power is lost.
Nuclear plants generally need AC power to operate the motors, valves and
instruments that control the systems that provide cooling water to the
radioactive core. If all AC power is lost, the options to cool the core are
limited.
If the core overheats, then the fuel would become damaged and a molten
mass could melt through the reactor vessel, releasing a large amount of
radioactivity into the containment building surrounding the vessel, the UCS
said.
It added that it was not clear if the quake had undermined the containment
building to contain pressure from any meltdown and allow radioactivity to
leak out.
Power supply systems that would provide emergency electricity for the plant
were being put in place, the World Nuclear Association said, with a source in
the organization saying "the situation is improving."
The reactors shut down due to the earthquake account for 18 percent of
Japan's nuclear power generating capacity.
Nuclear power produces about 30 percent of the country's electricity. Many
reactors are located in earthquake-prone zones such as Fukushima and Fukui
on the coast.
The IAEA estimates that around 20 percent of nuclear reactors around the
world are currently operating in areas of significant seismic activity.
It said the sector began putting more emphasis on external hazards after an
earthquake hit TEPCO's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in July 2007, until then the
largest to ever affect a nuclear facility.
When the earthquake hit the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, four
reactors shut down automatically. Water containing radioactive material was
released into the sea, but without an adverse effect on human health or the
environment, it said.
TEPCO had been operating three out of six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear plant at the time of the quake, all of which shut down.
A spokesman said that there were no concerns of a leak for the remaining
three reactors at the plant, which had been shut for planned maintenance.
03/13/2011 2:42 AM HKT
Japan warns of radiation leak from quake-hit plants
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