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  • Japan: Circulation cooling system hits another snag

    06/30/2011 6:22:10 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 2 replies · 1+ views
    NHK ^ | 06/30/11
    Circulation cooling system hits another snag The newly installed reactor-cooling system at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered another problem, as its water treatment equipment has stopped. The system that decontaminates and re-uses radioactive water from the facilities is believed to be the key to the stable cooling of the reactors. But Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says the decontamination equipment stopped automatically on Thursday afternoon when the alarm went off. TEPCO says the problem turned out to be a malfunction of a gas exhaust on a French-made device that removes radioactive material from the water. The...