Nippon Steel Nagoya plant shut after flames, smoke seen


  • World
  • Friday, 17 Jan 2014

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp's entire Nagoya steel plant in central Japan was shut after smoke and flames were seen billing out of one of the plant's units earlier on Friday.

Just before noon local time (0300 GMT) a power failure occurred at the plant, which was followed by flames and smoke seen escaping from a coke oven, a company spokesman said, adding it came from a process to burn off gas accumulated during regular operations and not an outbreak of fire.

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