<p>“A worker at our company spotted smoke emerging from the brake of the hoisting function of a crane in a turbine room,” the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said in a statement.<br /><br />“We reported immediately to the fire station and used fire extinguishers and now the smoke has stopped.” <br /><br />“There were no injuries nor any radiation leak” resulting from the incident in the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, in Niigata prefecture, 200 kilometres north of Tokyo, it said.<br /><br />The company said it would thoroughly investigate.</p>
<p>“A worker at our company spotted smoke emerging from the brake of the hoisting function of a crane in a turbine room,” the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said in a statement.<br /><br />“We reported immediately to the fire station and used fire extinguishers and now the smoke has stopped.” <br /><br />“There were no injuries nor any radiation leak” resulting from the incident in the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, in Niigata prefecture, 200 kilometres north of Tokyo, it said.<br /><br />The company said it would thoroughly investigate.</p>