An explosion occurred at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station north of Tokyo, destroying the walls of the No. 1 reactor building, NHK Television said. The report came after the government said a reactor may be melting.
Smoke was rising around the nuclear reactor after an aftershock from yesterday?s quake struck, Ryohei Shiomi, a spokesman at the country?s nuclear safety agency said by phone.
The spokesman said several people were injured during an aftershock that struck around 3:30 p.m. Japan time, adding he had no further information. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the plant, said it had no information, when contacted by Bloomberg News.
Japan?s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said earlier that a nuclear reactor in the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) north of Tokyo, may be starting to melt down after Japan?s biggest earthquake on record hit the area yesterday. ...
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Smoke was rising around the nuclear reactor after an aftershock from yesterday?s quake struck, Ryohei Shiomi, a spokesman at the country?s nuclear safety agency said by phone.
The spokesman said several people were injured during an aftershock that struck around 3:30 p.m. Japan time, adding he had no further information. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the plant, said it had no information, when contacted by Bloomberg News.
Japan?s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said earlier that a nuclear reactor in the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) north of Tokyo, may be starting to melt down after Japan?s biggest earthquake on record hit the area yesterday. ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...k-reports.html
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