Uploaded yesterday, the video already has accumulated more than 790,000 views. It’s narrated entirely in Japanese with Japanese lettering and logos atop the video. It’s unclear if the video was taken by journalists or amateur videographers.
Update: The video has since been removed by the user, according to YouTube, but it’s unclear why the video was taken down.
The 1:33 clip shows a close-up view of the damaged nuclear power plant, which has recently made front-page news across the world. The camera zooms in on massacred reactor buildings and downed lines, showing incredible devastation within certain structures. In several frames, you can see smoke billowing in front of the camera and also seeping out of certain buildings. It’s not certain if those smoky buildings contain reactors.
According to recent reports, “officials have lost the ability to cool down several reactors, leading to explosions and fires at the plant and the frightening risk of a full meltdown in the stricken reactors.” The emergency label for the crisis has been upgraded to Level 5 (Level 7 is the highest rating on the scale).
The Daily Mail writes radiation is reaching into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, “after a 45ft deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire.”
