Steam seen coming out of Fukushima reactor building

Steam seen coming out of Fukushima reactor building

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the upper part of the No. 3 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex at 4:18 p.m. on July 18, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the same day a monitoring camera showed "something like steam" coming out of the reactor building, but noted it had not detected any significant change in radiation levels.

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