From BBC

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Japan's NHK TV showed before and after pictures of the plant. They appeared to show that the outer structure of one of four buildings at the plant had collapsed after the explosion.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant's operator, said four workers had been injured.

It is not yet clear in exactly what part of the plant the explosion occurred or what caused it.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said experts were trying to determine the level of radiation at the site.

Cooling systems inside several reactors at both the Fukushima plants stopped working after Friday's earthquake cut the power supply.

Japan's nuclear agency said on Saturday that radioactive caesium and iodine had been detected near the number one reactor of the Fukushima 1 plant.

The agency said this may indicate that containers of uranium fuel inside the reactor may have begun melting.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

1. Given the size of that explosion

I am surprised that only 4 people got hurt. As well, given the pictures and video of the earthquake and tsunami I am surprise that they are saying only a 1000 people are dead.

[malaise]

2. I know nothing about nuclear power plants

so I can't comment on the number of injured. Numbers are rising significantly as a result of the tsunami. Thousands of people died in Japan.

[Jeanette in FL]

3. So freaking sad

And Lord only knows what we are not being told.

[malaise]

4. Just the death toll from the tsunami is freaking sad enough

let alone this nuclear emergency. Complete villages have been destroyed.
People in Japan are still under tsunami watch.