Video: Japan PM calls for calm as crisis deepens
SOMA, Japan — Already having to deal with overheating at three reactors and a spent fuel pool, engineers at Japan's stricken nuclear complex on Wednesday were worried about the possibility of blasts at two other reactors.
"Plant operators were considering the removal of panels from units 5 and 6 reactor buildings to prevent a possible buildup of hydrogen," the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement.
"It was a buildup of hydrogen at units 1, 2, and 3 that led to explosions at the Dai-ichi facilities in recent days," it added.
Units 5 and 6 at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were not producing when Friday's quake and tsunami struck. They are full with nuclear fuel but had been considered stable. But on Tuesday a senior official said temperatures there were also slightly elevated.
"The power for cooling is not working well and the temperature is gradually rising, so it is necessary to control it," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.
The news followed an explosion Monday night at the plant's Unit 4 that opened two large holes in the structure housing spent nuclear fuel rods.
Japanese officials told the IAEA that the spent fuel storage area had caught fire and that radioactivity was "being released directly into the atmosphere."
After the fire was extinguished, a Japanese official said the pool used to cool the spent fuel rods might still be boiling, though the reported levels of radiation had dropped dramatically by evening.
Experts noted that much of the leaking radiation was apparently in steam from boiling water. It had not been emitted directly by fuel rods, which would be far more virulent, they said.
"It's not good, but I don't think it's a disaster," said Steve Crossley, an Australia-based radiation physicist.
The fuel rods are encased in safety containers meant to prevent them from resuming nuclear reactions, nuclear officials said. But they acknowledged that there could have been damage to the containers.
Late Tuesday, officials at the plant said they were considering asking for help from the U.S. and Japanese militaries to spray water from helicopters into the pool.
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