A nuclear power plant in the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan is under a state of emergency following the massive 8.

One of the four buildings at the damaged Fukushima I nuclear plant has been destroyed in an apparent explosion Japans NHK broadcaster reported on Saturday.

TOKYO Reuters Thousands of residents were evacuated from an area around a nuclear plant in quakehit Japan after radiation levels rose in the reactor but there was no word on whether there had actually been a leak. Located in northern Japan the Fukushima Prefecture has a population of. FukushimaDaini is a 4 unit site. The following post is info from a CNN article comment by someone named jjj4591. The referenced unit was apparently up and was shut down byduring the quake.

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Nuclear Danger in Fukushima Japan. John on March 11 2011 at 827 pm.

The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima I NPP 1F often referred to as Fukushima Daiichi is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Okuma in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture. 9magnitude earthquake that shook the nation today. He said no harmful gases had been.

The explosion at Japans Fukushima nuclear plant was not caused by the nuclear reactor but by water vapor that was part of the cooling process Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Saturday. The reactor is located here This Bloomberg video describes what happened at the plant and what is being done to correct the problem before it goes critical. 1 nuclear plant reported an abnormality Friday following a powerful earthquake which hit a wide area in northeastern Japan including Fukushima Prefecture the industry ministry said.

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Update FukushimaDaiichi is a 6unit site three units were already down for maintenance. Earlier reports had said that in one unit the still hot fuel rods had been.

Overnight there was an explosion at one unit of one of the two Fukushima nuclear stations that have been slowly failing since the earthquake and tsunami.