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Monday, March 14, 2011

Fuel Rods May Have Partially Melted In 3 Reactors

Mar 14th, 2011 9:58am CST
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From Bloomberg:

"Fuel rods at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant may have melted when water levels fell, Japans top government spokesman said.
 
Rods in the Nos. 1, 2 and 3 reactors may have melted, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said to reporters in a briefing today. Molten rods would increase the risk of a meltdown.
 
Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the nuclear power plant, stopped pumping seawater into its Nos. 1 and 3 reactors earlier today because it needed to use the one working water pump on the No. 2 reactor to cool it down, said Nishiyama Hidehiko, director general at Japan’s trade ministry."

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