'Spent fuel pool at Fukushima No 4 reactor may be boiling'

A pool containing spent fuel at the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi No 4 reactor may be boiling and the water level may be falling, Kyodo news agency quoted an official at the reactor's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, as saying on Tuesday.

A pool containing spent fuel at the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi No 4 reactor may be boiling and the water level may be falling, Kyodo news agency quoted an official at the reactor's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, as saying on Tuesday.

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News of the problem at the shuttered reactor came after the UN Nuclear watchdog said earlier on Tuesday that Japan told it a fire had been extinguished at the storage pool.