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Second blast at Japan nuclear plant
14 Mar 2011 at 06:14hrs | Views
A second explosion has hit the nuclear plant in Japan which was damaged in Friday's earthquake.
TV footage showed smoke rising from Fukushima plant's reactor 3, a day after an explosion hit reactor 1.
Japan's nuclear safety agency said the blast was believed to have been caused by the build-up of hydrogen.
Professor Paddy Regan, a physics expert at Surrey University, said a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl in the 1980s was highly unlikely.
TV footage showed smoke rising from Fukushima plant's reactor 3, a day after an explosion hit reactor 1.
Japan's nuclear safety agency said the blast was believed to have been caused by the build-up of hydrogen.
Professor Paddy Regan, a physics expert at Surrey University, said a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl in the 1980s was highly unlikely.
Source - Byo24News
