Japan's quake-stricken nuke plant caught fire again Tuesday as a handful of heroic workers risked their lives inside to avert a full-scale nuclear meltdown. Flames and smoke shot into the air over the Fukushima plant's No. 4 reactor, fueling fears about the worsening situation.
Radiation levels were too high for firefighters to get close enough to douse the blaze, said state broadcaster NHK.
Reactor No. 4 was idled for maintenance before Friday's earthquake and tsunami, but spent fuel rods stored there were overheating. The fire was seen near the spent fuel storage.
Even before the new fire, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Tokyo appeared to be losing control of the crisis.
"There is talk of an apocalypse and I think the word is particularly well chosen," he said after an emergency meeting of nuclear experts in Brussels.
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