Business Recorder - World - Asia https://www.brecorder.com/ Business Recorder en-Us Copyright 2026 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:39:14 +0500 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:39:14 +0500 60 Smoke at Japan reactor forces workers to pull back https://www.brecorder.com/news/8276/smoke-at-japan-reactor-forces-workers-to-pull-back <p class="MsoNormal"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/Japanese_404.jpg" width="400" height="323" />OSAKA: Workers were evacuated from part of a stricken nuclear power station in Japan on Wednesday after dark smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors, plant operator TEPCO said.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">"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.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Engineers are trying to restart the cooling systems of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant, located 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, but smoke and spikes in radiation have at times hindered their efforts.</p> <p><center><b><i>Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011</i></b><i> </i></center></p> OSAKA: Workers were evacuated from part of a stricken nuclear power station in Japan on Wednesday after dark smoke was seen rising from one of the reactors, plant operator TEPCO said.

"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 (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, but smoke and spikes in radiation have at times hindered their efforts.

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