Smoke poured out of a nuclear power plant facility in western Japan today, but no injuries or radiation leakage was reported.
The incident occurred at a waste disposal facility between two reactors at Kansai Electric's Ohi power plant in Fukui at about 0940 GMT, according to alocal government official.
An official at Fukui prefecture said that two people had been taken to hospital after inhaling smoke.
The generation units were unaffected by the fire and were operating normally, the Kansai Electric spokesman said. Each has a capacity to generate 1.18-million kilowatts of electricity.