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Smoke Seen Rising from Fukushima No. 2 Nuke Plant Fukushima, March 30 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> said Wednesday smoke was seen rising from a building near a reactor of its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant temporarily. Smoke was confirmed to be rising from the turbine building of the No. 1 reactor at around 5:56 p.m. (8:56 a.m. GMT), the operator of the plant said, adding that it could no longer observe any smoke. Officials said the smoke apparently came from a circuit breaker for a pump used to send water condensed from dews on turbine pipes. No...

Unit 1 (shut down at 2:48PM on March 11th) - Reactor is shut down and reactor water level is stable. - Offsite power is available. - Control rods are fully inserted (reactor is in subcritical status) - Status of main steam isolation valve: closed - Injection of water into the reactor had been done by the Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System, but at 3:48AM, injection by Make-up Water Condensate System begun - At 6:08PM, we announced the increase in reactor containment vessel pressure, assumed to be due to leakage of reactor coolant. However, we do not believe there is leakage...