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Chief cabinet minister Yukio Edano<\/strong><\/span> warned of a hydrogen blast in reactor three at the Daiichi plant in Fukushima, but insisted it could withstand it as reactor one did on Saturday.<\/p>\n The first explosion destroyed the building housing reactor one, but did not prompt a major radiation leak.<\/p>\n Mr Edano said it was highly likely a partial meltdown had occurred in one reactor of the Fukushima plant, and that authorities were working on the assumption that one may occur in another.<\/p>\n Operators are now attempting to reduce the risk of meltdown at a total of three of the affected reactors at Daiichi by injecting sea water into them.<\/p>\n Tokyo Electric Power Company<\/strong><\/span> (TEPCO) said it was preparing to release some steam to relieve pressure in the reactor at the plant – 150 miles (241km) north of Tokyo.<\/p>\n This plan would release a small amount of radiation.<\/p>\n “We can stabilise the reactor if we take the air out and pump water in the vessel properly,” Mr Edano said.<\/p>\n “At the risk of raising further public concern, we cannot rule out the possibility of an explosion.<\/p>\n “If there is an explosion, however, there would be no significant impact on human health.”<\/p>\n The government has insisted radiation levels are low following Saturday’s explosion, saying the blast had not affected the reactor’s core container.<\/p>\n Some 22 people have showed signs of possible exposure to radiation at the Fukushima plant.<\/p>\n But officials from the\u00a0Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency<\/strong><\/span> say up to 160 may have suffered radiation exposure.<\/p>\n A 12-mile (19km) radius has been imposed on the Fukushima Daiichi plant with an estimated 170,000 people already having been evacuated.<\/p>\n Sky News’ Holly Williams, in Fukushima, said: “The experts I’m speaking to say that at the moment, as long as people are evacuated from the area, there is very little risk to humans.<\/p>\n “But they say the big risk here is fire. If either of these reactors caught fire, that would spread that radiation over a much larger area, which is obviously the concern of Japanese authorities at this moment.”<\/p>\n A six-mile exclusion zone is also in place around the nearby Fukushima Daini station, with an estimated 30,000 people told to leave the area.<\/p>\n The Sky News<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A second explosion could hit the nuclear power plant damaged in Japan’s devastating earthquake, officials have warned. Chief cabinet minister Yukio Edano warned of a hydrogen blast in reactor three at the Daiichi plant in Fukushima, but insisted it could withstand it as reactor one did on Saturday. The first explosion destroyed the building housing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[5087,5088],"class_list":["post-31137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-explosion","tag-japan-nuclear-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"