Originally posted by Wikinews. Wikinews content appears under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license except where specified. As these articles are static snapshots of news items that may be later updated, they may not represent the latest or final revision of that article, and posted information may be only preliminary. Fukushima reactor suffers multiple fires, radiation leak confirmed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 15, 2011 Original URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Fukushima_reactor_suffers_multiple_fires,_radiation_leak_confirmed Fires broke out at the Fukushima Daiichi plant's No. 4 reactor in Japan on Tuesday, according to the . The first fire caused a leak of concentrated radioactive material, according to the Japanese prime minister, Naoto Kan. The first fire broke out at 9:40 a.m. local time on Tuesday, and was thought to have been put out, but another fire was discovered early on Wednesday, believed to have started because the earlier one had not been fully extinguished. In a televised statement, the prime minister told residents near the plant that "I sincerely ask all citizens within the 20 km distance from the reactor to leave this zone." He went on to say that "[t]he radiation level has risen substantially. The risk that radiation will leak from now on has risen." Kan warned residents to remain indoors and to shut windows and doors to avoid radiation poisoning. The French Embassy in Japan reports that the radiation will reach Tokyo in 10 hours, with current wind speeds. == Sources == * http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78063.html * http://en.rian.ru/world/20110315/163008312.html * http://en.rian.ru/world/20110315/163008635.html * http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698 * http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0315/Japan-nuclear-crisis-eclipses-Three-Mile-Island-nears-Chernobyl-league .