Electricity supply works resume at Japan's crippled Fukushima 1 NPP

MOSCOW. March 24. KAZINFORM Works to restore main cooling and power functions at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima 1 nuclear power plant resumed on Thursday after they were hindered the previous day by a black smoke rising from the plant's 3rd reactor, Kyodo news agency reported. Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

The cause of the rising black smoke, which stopped by itself at 4:50 a.m. local time Thursday, is still unknown, but no fire was seen and no climb in radiation levels was registered.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. already managed to restore electricity in the control room of the 1st reactor. All six reactors were reconnected to the external power as of Tuesday night.

The electricity supply will run an automated cooling system in the damaged reactors and pools containing spent nuclear fuel. Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version