Tokyo Electric Vents Radioactive Gas at Plant After Earthquake
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. started releasing radioactive gas from one of the reactors at a nuclear plant north of Tokyo and is preparing to conduct a similar operation at a second station after yesterday’s quake.
Tokyo Electric, Asia’s biggest power company, started venting gas from a containment section of the No. 1 reactor of its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo at about 9 a.m. local time, Akitsuka Kobayashi, a company spokesman, said by phone today.