Reply #209: Japan issues state of emergency at 2nd nuclear plant

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Source: CBC News

Breaking Japan issues state of emergency at 2nd nuclear plant

The Japanese government declared has issued a state of emergency at a second nuclear power plant following cooling-systems failures.

The emergency declarations followed Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the country's northeast coast. The quake, the most powerful in Japan's recorded history, triggered a massive tsunami wave.

At the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Onahama city, about 270 kilometres northeast of Tokyo, a power failure triggered a problem in a cooling system, causing radiation levels in a reactor to rise to 1,000 times normal. Japan's nuclear safety agency said some radiation escaped from the plant.

The quake cut off power to the plant, . A backup generator failed and the primary cooling system was not able to supply water to the plant's 460-megawatt No. 1 reactor.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/03/11/earthquake-japan-nuclear-reactor.html