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Summary Japanese officials manage to overcome the fire which erupted in the nuclear plant.
Japan raced to avert a catastrophe after fire broke out on Wednesday at a nuclear plant that has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital and triggering growing international alarm. Japans trade ministry said the quake-stricken nuclear power plant appeared no longer to be on fire.Experts say spent fuel rods in a cooling pool at the No. 4 reactor could be exposed by the fire and spew more radiation into the atmosphere. Operator TEPCO said it was considering using a helicopter to dump boric acid, a fire retardant, on the facility. Japans Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said two workers were missing after blasts at the facility a day earlier blew a hole in the building housing the No. 4 reactor.Winds over a radiation-leaking nuclear power plant in northern Japan will blow from the north along the Pacific coast early on Wednesday and then from the northwest towards the ocean during the day time, the Japan Meteorological Agency says.
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