Fukushima chief was pleading for help from U.S. military: “Fire’s broken out at Reactor 4… We can’t do anything… please” — Leader turned pale after seeing flames and black smoke near fuel pool — Worker tries to have last meal before dying and realizes he’s unable to taste food
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September 30th, 2014
Kyodo News (Part 11), Sept. 28, 2014 (emphasis added): Fearing a massive discharge of radiation on March 15, 2011, Fukushima No. 1 plant chief Masao Yoshida told [the Tepco] head office in Tokyo that he had to consider evacuating the majority of on-site employees. This followed a report at 6:14 am earlier in the day… suggesting the containment vessel had been damaged. Yet Tepco officials… did not share Yoshida’s sense of urgency, with one official saying it could just have been a pressure gauge glitch. Yoshida responded furiously. “It doesn’t make sense for us to remain when the radiation level rises!” he shouted as he hastily donned a white safety helmet… Yoshida, 56, strove to convey that the plant was in such a critical state that anything could happen… there was no area within the No. 1 plant where plant workers could stay for long because of alarming radiation levels…
Kyodo News (Part 12), Sept. 28, 2014: There was no doubt that the fuel meltdown was worsening in reactor 2, in addition to the core meltdowns that had already occurred in reactors 1 and 3, as radiation levels at the plant were rising. But workers could do nothing more than maintain seawater injections to cool fuel [most of which leaked before entering the reactors, and water that did make it accelerated the melting process]… At 7:02 am, the level around the main gate reached 882 microsieverts per hour…
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