New York Times: The Japanese government reported early Wednesday that a fire was burning at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan.
The announcement came just hours after officials with the Tokyo Electric Power Company said that they would consider using helicopters in an attempt to put cold water into a boiling rooftop storage pool for spent uranium fuel rods. The rods are still radioactive and potentially as hot and dangerous as the fuel rods inside the reactors if not kept submerged in water.
"The only ideas we have right now are using a helicopter to spray water from above, or inject water from below," a power company official said at a news conference. "We believe action must be taken by tomorrow or the day after."