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A combination photo made of still images from video footage March 14, 2011, shows the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex. A hydrogen explosion rocked a crippled nuclear power plant in Japan on Monday where authorities have been scrambling to avert a meltdown following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. (REUTERS/NTV)
There has been a slight rise in temperature of two more reactors at a quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant, where engineers are battling to avert meltdown, the chief government spokesman said Tuesday.
There have already been explosions at four of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 plant 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo, after Friday's earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems.
Spokesman Yukio Edano said the slight temperature rise was at the number-five and number-six reactors, where problems had not previously been reported.
Meanwhile, Japan has told the UN nuclear watchdog that it has extinguished a fire at the spent fuel storage pond of its earthquake-stricken reactor, the Vienna-based agency said.
"Japanese authorities have confirmed that the fire at the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was extinguished," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
It had said earlier on Monday that the fire may have been caused by a hydrogen explosion and that radioactivity was being released "directly" into the atmosphere.
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