TOKYO - Steam has been spotted near a pool storing machinery removed from a crippled reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, its Japanese operator said Thursday. "Steam has been seen around the fifth floor of the Reactor 3 building," a Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) spokesman told AFP. The roof of the building was blown off in a hydrogen explosion in the days after the March 2011 meltdowns. "(The steam) was drifting thinly in the air and it's not like a big column of steam is spurting up," the spokesman said. "Neither the temperature of the reactor nor readings at radiation monitoring posts have gone up. "We...
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