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29 April 2011. Add top photo and links to two videos released by TEPCO on April 29, 2011:

The spent fuel pool of Unit 4, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station video on April 28, 2011

Site observation by the packbot in the nuclear reactor building of Unit 1 video on April 26, 2011

28 April 2011. Previous photos and documents: http://cryptome.org/nppw-series.htm

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 13


Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 13

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In this April 28, 2011 image from video footage released Friday, April 29, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), top parts of fuel rods are seen about 6 meters (20 feet) from the surface of water in the spent fuel storage pool at the damaged Unit 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. This is the first time an underwater image of the storage pool was released by TEPCO after the complex was ravaged byt the March tsunami. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. )

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - Southwest side of the nuclear reactor building of Unit 4 on April 20, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - Around north side of 1R/B 2 on April 21, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - Around north side of 1R/B 1 on April 18, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - Around west side of 1R/B 2 on April 23, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station - Around west side of 1R/B 1 on April 13, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Around Shiomizaka /former Welfare Building 2 on April 13, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Around Shiomizaka /former Welfare Building 1 pictured on April 13, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Around Shiomizaka /former Welfare Building 3 on April 13, 2011. Released by TEPCO April 28, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

On April 27, 2011, TEPCO released a video taken from T-Hawk of current situation between the turbine building and the reactor building of the unit 1, 2, 3, and 4 on April 21, 2011 (three stills below):

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110427_thawk.zip

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In this image from video footage taken Tuesday, April 26, 2011 by a PackBot and released Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co., another PacBot works inside the nuclear reactor building of Unit 1 at the Fukushima Dai-ich nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Workers detected water leaking from the containment vessel of Unit 1, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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In this April 21, 2011 image from a video footage taken by T-Hawk drone aircraft and released, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the aerial image shows south side of the damaged reactor building of Unit 1 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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In this April 21, 2011 image from a video footage taken by T-Hawk drone aircraft and released, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the aerial image shows north side of the damaged reactor building of Unit 1 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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Tsutomu Murai, 31, right, with his wife Makiko, 28, and daughter Haruna, 8, pose for a photo at the basement of their house washed out by tsunami wave in the area devastated by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, April 24, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev)

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Setsuo Ito, 61, right, and his wife Tomoko, 55, pose for a photo near the basement of their house washed out by tsunami in the area devastated by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, April 24, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev)

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Yoshiki Igarashi, 86, poses for a photo on a basement of his washed out house in the area devastated by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Sunday, April 24, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev)

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A family of Oukawa, from left: Marina, 15, Tomonori, 43, Tomoko, 39, Aran, 11, Setsuko, 72, pose for photo in front of their house in the area devastated by March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, April 23, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev)

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Koichi Matsuura, 54, with his mother Asako, 81, pose for photo in front of their house in the area devastated by March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, April 23, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev)

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Residents from left, Seiko Yoshida, 66, Ruriko Kusano, 40, Hiroko Kusano, 65, Satoshi Kusano, 41, pose for photo in front of their house in the area devastated by March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, April 23, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev)

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A man pours fuel in a makeshift brasier in the area devastated by March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Saturday, April 23, 2011. (Sergey Ponomarev)