Workers resumed trying to restore cooling systems Tuesday at the damaged Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima, a day after smoke from two reactors forced repair crews to evacuate.
Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said white smoke from the plant's No. 2 reactor could have been steam and a darker plume from the No. 3 reactor was debris that had been set on fire by the building's rising temperature, the Kyodo news agency reported.
By midday, firefighters and Japanese Self-Defense Forces deemed the situation safe enough to return and continue spraying the building housing the No. 3 reactor, the only one of the plant's six that has yet to be connected power cables, Kyodo said.
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