TEPCO, the Japanese company operating at the stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima, announced early on Monday that another explosion had left three staff injured and seven missing. Anyone nearby was ordered to go indoors. Journalists from the Associated Press said they felt the blast from 25 miles away.
The chief cabinet secretary stated it was a hydrogen explosion which occurred in unit three of power plant one. The cooling systems in the different reactors have continued to struggle since the earthquake and tsunami on Friday, and one of the other reactors exploded on Saturday, although no serious damage seemed to have happened then.
Now, it appears that efforts to fix the cooling systems have failed. Hopefully there are no fatalities, nor leaks of radioactive material, but the details are still very unclear, and everyone involved will be watching anxiously, hoping that the situation improves quickly.
However, there are still warnings over further tsunami waves and earthquakes which could be hitting the country again soon.
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