Several officials and experts both from Japan and abroad have warned that TEPCO has not been completely up front with the conditions at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and this footage may not help to quench those concerns.
On January 7th, around 10:15 in the morning, an enormous billowing cloud of black smoke erupted from the grounds of the nuclear power complex and headed south down the coastline.
This release was captured not only on the camera set up by the Japanese news broadcasting station TBS/JNN, but also glimpsed on TEPCO’s own video footage.
TEPCO has not made a statement at this time related to the release.
Source: Youtube
Source: Youtube
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January 7, 2013
Got some screengrabs as it happened.
They are posted here -
http://wp.me/pA5vn-2A3
They looked like a fire somewhere … not at all like smoke that can come from a bulldozer etc. Too much smoke.
nuckelchen
January 12, 2013
well,
the hour ten to eleven as a fuku1live timelapsed with a 20 x times speeded up:
http://youtu.be/73rbmPJelBw
and here both streams syncronized:
http://youtu.be/2WoNZ7034do
the missing hours i got as realtime records on my backup.
so if its needed gimme call.
greetings from germany
ulli