Explode again at the Japanese nuclear power plant

The second explosion at Japan's Fukushima I nuclear power plant has just happened, due to hydrogen gas. There are 7 people missing and three people injured in the explosion.

Photographs from NHK TV show the No. 1 Fukushima nuclear power plant
before (below) and after the explosion (above). ( According to Dan Tri )

Japanese television shows that smoke from the Fukushima I nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture after the explosion sounded.

There are 7 missing and three injured in this explosion. Ap's reporter said he could feel the explosion at a distance of 40 km.

Kyodo news agency said the explosion came from the factory's No. 3 reactor. Mr. Yukio Edano, Chief of Japanese Cabinet Office, confirmed smoke rising from the No.3 reactor from 11h05 local time.

Edano, quoted by Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, said the surrounds are likely to be undamaged and thus less likely to be released.

Tepco, through JijiPress, has just said that the reactor core is not explosive. The cooling water pump continues. The Japan Nuclear Safety Agency said it was a hydrogen gas explosion.

There were four nuclear power plants in northeastern Japan, but today, the biggest threat is concentrating on creating Dai-ichi's factory in Fukushima Prefecture, where an explosion happened on Saturday. and just happened the second case. Executives were unable to cool the three reactors in this plant and three more in another factory in the usual way. The reason is that earthquakes cause power outages and then tsunamis sank into submerged backup generators.

Workers are injecting seawater into the kiln No. 1 and No. 3 of Dai-chi's factory, because there is no other cooling way. They will bring cooling water into four other furnaces that are also not cooling, despite the risk that seawater will corrode parts and make the reactors unusable.

The scene of the explosion at the Fukushima I nuclear plant on Saturday.

Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano dismissed the idea that melting in the factory of the Fukushima I plant could have occurred, but other officials said the situation was unclear.

Hidehiko Nishiyama, a senior official of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, pointed out that the No. 3 reactor had partially melted. He said at a news conference: " I don't think fuel rods are damaged ," Kyodo news agency quoted him.

A complete melt will spread uranium and other dangerous substances into the environment, causing many health risks.

Edano said residents within a 20-kilometer radius of Dai-ichi's factory were evacuated to prevent radiation, and that the current level of radiation in the environment is not so high that it could affect human health. .

Meanwhile, Japan today started rotating power outages, because power shortages are happening on a large scale, as a series of nuclear power plants are in an emergency situation and are closed.