GSDF colonel recounts fearing for life in Fukushima reactor blast (JAPAN)

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GSDF colonel recounts fearing for life in Fukushima reactor blast (JAPAN)

It went boom: Col. Shinji Iwakuma, leader of the Ground Self-Defense Force's Central Nuclear Biological Chemical Weapon Defense Unit, speaks of his brush with the hydrogen explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, at the GSDF base in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sunday. KYODO PHOTO

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A Ground Self-Defense Force officer who was nearly killed by one of the hydrogen explosions at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant in March recalled Sunday how the blast made him fear for his life and those of his men.

"I thought that if it was a bad blast, we would not survive it," said Col. Shinji Iwakuma, leader of the GSDF's Central Nuclear Biological Chemical Weapon Defense Unit.

The March 14 blast at the No. 3 reactor injured four of Iwakuma's men just as the six-member team was preparing to spray water onto the crippled reactor, which lost its cooling system in the March 11 quake and tsunami and was overheating to dangerous levels.

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