Tokyo Nuke Cloud Crisis
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The Foreign Office warned Brits to avoid the capital as it was feared a SECOND nuclear reactor was heading for meltdown after Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
And there were heightened concerns early today following a hydrogen blast 170 miles north of Tokyo at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company said 11 workers were injured after the explosion. Seven people were also reported as missing.
Japan's chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano said the core container at the reactor was intact and the fresh explosion was unlikely to have led to a large escape of radioactivity.
The explosion – inside No3 reactor – was similar to an earlier one at a different unit of the facility.
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March 14, 2011