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Six-mile exclusion zone placed around  crippled nuclear reactor as radiation hits 1,000 times safe level By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:08 PM on 11th March 2011 Comments (35) Videos Add to My Stories 3,000 evacuated from area Pressure rises to 1.5 times normal level Experts warn the situation 'could turn grave' The situation at a Japanese nuclear power plant badly damaged by today's earthquake became critical this evening when radiation rose to 1,000 times the safe level. Officials were ordering residents within a six-mile radius of the Fukushima No.1 power plant to evacuate immediately as fears that it could explode grew. Earlier tonight they had proposed releasing radioactive vapour into the atmosphere in a bid to prevent an explosion after its cooling system failed. The country's nuclear safety agency says pressure inside the reactor had risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal. Officials said the vapour that would be released would not affect the environment or human health. Scroll down for video Danger: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant could explode after equipment used to cool down the reactor failed following the Japanese earthquake Previously officials had said there was no leak of deadly radiation from the crippled facility in Onahama city, about 170 miles north-east of Tokyo in the Fukushima prefecture. But they had already evacuated around 2,800 residents within a two-mile radius of the plant. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the nuclear power plant developed a mechanical failure in the system which cools the reactor after it was shut down in the earthquake. He said the measure was a precaution, there was no radiation leak and the facility was not in immediate danger. Plant workers are now scrambling to restore cooling water supplies, but warned there was no prospect of an immediate success. Ablaze: An oil refinery is on fire in Chiba city - just one of many fires sparked by the 8.9 magnitude earthquake - the sixth biggest ever recorded Disaster scene: The Fukushima No. 1 power plant run by the Tokyo Electric Power Co. at Okuma in northern Japan, pictured in 2008 It is understood that water levels at the facility have not reached critical levels. But while workers at the nuclear facility battled to restore normal function, a huge fire engulfed a natural gas facility in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo. Flames soared hundreds of feet into the air from the terminal which is based in the sea and felt the full force of the earthquake. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365333/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-State-emergency-nuclear-power-plant-crippled.html#ixzz1GKroAvZv

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