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An aerial view shows the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. [AFP]
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A fire has broken out at a second nuclear plant in the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima.
The fire broke out in a power distribution board in the basement of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daini plant, which is just 10 kilometres from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi facility.
Both plants are operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which says workers immediately put out the fire.
A company spokesman says there are no reports of injuries or of any leakage of radiation.
Firefighters are investigating what triggered the blaze.
Fukushima Daini's four reactors were put in a state of cold shutdown after the March earthquake and tsunami.
Environmental activist organisation Greenpeace says marine life it tested earier this month in the Pacific Ocean near the nuclear plant has radiation above legal limits.
The March 11 disaster killed about 14,800 people and knocked out all the cooling systems at the Daiichi power plant facility, leading to the greatest leak of radiation since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
The fire broke out in a power distribution board in the basement of the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daini plant, which is just 10 kilometres from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi facility.
Both plants are operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which says workers immediately put out the fire.
A company spokesman says there are no reports of injuries or of any leakage of radiation.
Firefighters are investigating what triggered the blaze.
Fukushima Daini's four reactors were put in a state of cold shutdown after the March earthquake and tsunami.
Environmental activist organisation Greenpeace says marine life it tested earier this month in the Pacific Ocean near the nuclear plant has radiation above legal limits.
The March 11 disaster killed about 14,800 people and knocked out all the cooling systems at the Daiichi power plant facility, leading to the greatest leak of radiation since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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