Ifølge følgende var det ikke en kernereaktorbygning, som eksploderede igår, men derimod kernereaktor 1's nærvedliggende turbinebygning:
March 12, 2011 at 4:34 p.m, Japan floods reactor to prevent meltdown: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20110... Citat: "... Government officials and executives of Tokyo Electric Power, which runs the plant, gave confusing accounts of the causes of the explosion and the damage it caused. Late Saturday night, officials said that [b]the explosion occurred in a structure housing turbines[/b] near the No. 1 reactor at the plant rather than inside the reactor itself. ... “We’ve confirmed that the reactor container was [b]not[/b] damaged. The explosion [b]didn’t[/b] occur inside the reactor container. As such there was no large amount of radiation leakage outside,” Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said in a news conference on Saturday night ..."
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TEPCO; Tokyo Electric Power Company: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/r... http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/r... Citat: "... In addition, a vertical earthquake hit the site and big explosion has happened [b]near[/b] the Unit 1 and smoke breaks out around 3:36PM, Mar 12th...."