Explosion hits quake-damaged Japanese nuclear plant (UPDATED)

An explosion has wreck the Fukushima 1 atomic power industrial plant in Japan . atomic officials have detected radioactive cesium and tincture of iodine at the land site and revere that the uranium fuel rods have begun melt . Notes the BBC :

airwave and steam , with some level of radioactivity , has been released from several of the reactors at both plants in an exploit to ease the Brobdingnagian amount of pressure level work up up inside . [ … ] analyst say a meltdown would not necessarily run to a major disaster because idle - urine reactors would not burst forth even if they overheated .

But Walt Patterson , of the London research institute Chatham House , said “ this is starting to look a lot like Chernobyl ” .

He said it was too early to tell if the detonation ’s aftermath would result in the same extreme stratum of radioactive contaminant that occurred at Chernobyl .

As Japan ’s nuclear way assess the damage , the voiding range around the reactorhas been expandedfrom 10 kilometers to 20 kilometers . And in other news , the quake induce the Earth ’s rotationto upper up by 1.6 microseconds .

UPDATE : A government spokesman has saidthat radiation sickness level and pressure in the nuclear reactor have since minify and that the nuclear nuclear reactor was not damage .

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