STORY7: Workers witnessed meltdown signs at Fukushima No. 3 reactor

STORY7: Workers witnessed meltdown signs at Fukushima No. 3 reactor

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Supplied photo taken in December 2011 shows a Tokyo Electric Power Co. worker checking around a venting valve above the suppression chamber at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No. 5 reactor, which is the same model as the troubled No. 3 reactor. (Photo courtesy of TEPCO)(For editorial use only)(Kyodo)

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