Fukushima Boss after 3/11: "It’s awful, awful… No. 3 reactor just blew, probably a steam explosion" – Steam explosion, not hydrogen? Reactor blew up, not reactor building? (VIDEO)

(Subscription Only) Title: INSIDE FUKUSHIMA: How workers tried but failed to avert a nuclear disaster
Source: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Author: Toshihiro Okuyama, Hideaki Kimura and Takashi Sugimoto
Date: October 14, 2012

At 11:01 a.m. on March 14, the video image showing the emergency response room at the Fukushima No. 1 plant, where a teleconference was in progress, shook violently and vertically.

[Fukushima Daiichi boss Masao] Yoshida shouted 50 seconds later: “We’ve got a big problem. The No. 3 reactor just blew. Probably a steam explosion.”

Alternate translation

Yoshida: “Main office! Main office! Main office Main office, it’s awful, awful. The unit 3 has exploded now. I think it’s probably steam.”

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