Business Recorder - News https://www.brecorder.com/ Business Recorder en-Us Copyright 2026 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:04:55 +0500 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:04:55 +0500 60 Meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors: Japan govt https://www.brecorder.com/news/6795/meltdowns-may-have-occurred-in-two-reactors-japan-govt <p class="MsoPlainText"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/Nuclear_Reactor_400.jpg" width="400" height="385" />TOKYO: Japan's top government spokesman Yukio Edano said Sunday that radioactive meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors of the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">Asked in a press conference whether meltdowns had occurred, Edano said "we are acting on the assumption that there is a high possibility that one has occurred" in the plant's number-one reactor.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">"As for the number-three reactor, we are acting on the assumption that it is possible," he said.</p> <p><center><b><i>Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011</i></b><i> </i></center></p> TOKYO: Japan's top government spokesman Yukio Edano said Sunday that radioactive meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors of the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant.

Asked in a press conference whether meltdowns had occurred, Edano said "we are acting on the assumption that there is a high possibility that one has occurred" in the plant's number-one reactor.

"As for the number-three reactor, we are acting on the assumption that it is possible," he said.

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