Second Explosion at Reactor #3 at Japan’s Fukushima Plant
Click here to view this media From CNN — Explosion rocks another Japanese nuclear reactor building : Fresh white smoke rose again Monday from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, caused by an explosion at a building tied to the facility’s No. 3 reactor. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that, according to the head of the nuclear facility, the container vessel surrounding the reactor is still intact. Initial reports suggest that radiation levels rose following the explosion late Monday morning, but Edano said he does not believe there has been a massive leak. “We are now collecting information on the concentration of radiation,” he said. A wall of the building collapsed due to the blast, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, which showed plumes of smoke above the plant. The secretary said that water continues to be injected into the plant’s No. 3 reactor. That fact, and the pressure levels, has led authorities to believe that the reactor itself remains intact. The incident is the latest affecting the Daiichi, the hardest hit of several nuclear plants affected since Friday’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Officials said that the explosion was likely caused by a buildup of hydrogen gas, similar to what had happened Saturday at the same nuclear plant’s No. 1 reactor. More there so read the rest. I’m wondering if Anderson Cooper is going to regret running over there. With more aftershocks and tsunami warnings coming in you’ve got to wonder just how much worse things are going to get before they get anything stabilized, if they do.
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Second Explosion at Reactor #3 at Japan’s Fukushima Plant
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