Reactor #3, Second Video

March 14th 2011 1:20am CST
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Aerial view of 2nd incident

Late yesterday afternoon CST, word began to spread that a second Japanese reactor was in critical condition. By mid evening, it had been reported that it was Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor number 3. Somewhere between 11:00pm and 11:10pm CST this reactor experienced a hydrogen explosion and possible meltdown.

It is still being reported that the containment structure is not ruptured. The footage below is the most recent of that event.

Reactor #3, cont...

Mar 13th, 2011 11:50pm CST
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We reported earlier on the possibility of serious danger at Fukushima reactor #3. There has been an explosion event but the core's containment structure is reportedly intact at this time.

Business Week reports:
"The vessel containing the radioactive core of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi No. 3 reactor is intact after a hydrogen explosion at 11:01am local time, Chief Cabinet Secretary Ykio Edano said. 

The possibility of a large radiation leak is very small, even as radiation levels at the reactor are rising, Edano, the government's main spokesman, said at a press conference. Tokyo Electric said one worker was injured and seven are missing after today's explosion at the station 220 kilometers (135miles) north of the Japanes capital."

International Business Times reports:
"Japanese officials had been injecting seawater into overheating nuclear reactors on Sunday, in an attempt to relieve pressure at the plant.

The number 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 plant may have been deformed due to overheating, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said earlier in the day. He denied that there had been a "meltdown" at the plant."

However, Business Week just added this update, time-stamped 12:28 EDT:

"Tokyo Electric Power Co. said a meltdown is possible at its Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 3 reactor where a hydrogen explosion occurred, injuring six workers."

Below is raw video of the event. I hesitate to post untranslated feeds, but this is the only footage available at this time.

Reactor #3

March 13th, 2011 8:30pm CST
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Just in from Xinhua:

"The No. 3 reactor at the plant lost its ability to cool the reactor core early Sunday, becoming the sixth reactor that lost the function. And a hydrogen explosion is possible at the No. 3 reactor. 

According to the latest NHK news report on Monday, pressure at No. 3 reactor of Fukushima nuclear plant is rising, workers at the site have been evacuated.

An official of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that the emergency cooling system of the No.3 reactor is no longer functioning."