From the FINANCIAL TIMES:
An explosion rocked Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, hours after the US navy began moving ships away from the area as the emergency escalated at the earthquake-damaged power station north of Tokyo.
Combustible hydrogen had been collecting inside the No. 3 reactor building since Sunday, as engineers vented gas from inside the reactor’s protective containment vessel in an effort to relieve pressure building up inside.,,
Tepco 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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