An explosion rocked Japan’s earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, escalating the emergency at the 40-year-old power plant north of Tokyo.
The blast, captured by television cameras, appeared to have occurred at the plant’s No. 3 reactor building, where combustible hydrogen had been building up due to the venting of gas from inside the reactor.
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the plant’s operator, said the reactor’s protective containment shell remained intact after the blast. A similar explosion destroyed part of the plant’s No. 1 reactor building on Saturday.
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