NHK is reporting that Fukushima plant 1 (Daiichi), reactor 4, is on fire for a second time. NHK is also reporting that currently no flames are visible.

Late last night/early this morning officials said the fire burned itself out.

Plant officials are saying they can not fight the fire because of the high levels of radiation. They are asking for firefighting help from the government.

There is a growing number of nuclear experts, around the world, that are becoming extremely concerned over the fact that spent fuel rods are exposed and/or burning.

Earlier today NHK reported that reactor 4 has 783 spent rods stored in a “pool” above the reactor.  Spent rods are still highly radioactive.  It has also been admitted that the survivability of the spent fuel rod pools, in event of natural disaster, was never taken into account.

An official interviewed by NHK admitted that they don’t really know what is going on.  This makes sense because there is a skeleton crew at the plant (which probably have been exposed to deadly levels of radiation), and the “officials” are not at the plant.  Most employees evacuated the plant after the earthquake.