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  • Japan: TEPCO forced to review reactor 4 cooling plan(large hole in a wall)

    06/11/2011 4:14:43 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 6 replies
    NHK ^ | 06/12/11
    TEPCO forced to review reactor 4 cooling plan The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been forced to reconsider its plan to cool the spent fuel storage pool of the No.4 reactor. Water injection from a special vehicle has not been intense enough to cool the water in the pool, allowing the temperature to remain at more than 80 degrees Celsius. Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, aims to install a circulatory cooling system that will pump water out of the pool and return it there as coolant. The utility originally hoped to put the system in...