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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Blast at quake-hit Japan nuke plant causes radiation leak

An explosion blew the roof off an unstable reactor north of Tokyo, Japan media said, raising fears of a disastrous meltdown at a nuclear plant.

Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor north of Tokyo on Saturday, the government said, after an explosion blew the roof off the facility in the wake of a massive earthquake.

The developments raised fears of a meltdown at the plant as officials scrambled to contain what could be the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl explosion in 1986 that shocked the world