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Brought to you by the “Japan Atomic Industrial Forum” whose motto
is:<br>
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“Nuclear Power, with no emission of carbon dioxide, contributes to
the prevention of global warming.” <br>
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The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
has started<br>
taking a closer look at spent fuel inside a storage pool at one of
its 4 reactor<br>
buildings, in preparation for the eventual removal of the fuel.<br>
Tokyo Electric Power Company put a remote-controlled underwater
camera<br>
inside the storage pool for Reactor Number 4 on Thursday to examine
conditions<br>
inside. The firm says it will insert the camera several more times
in March.<br>
<font color="#ff0000">In one of the first steps in a 40-year plan
for decommissioning the plant, Tokyo<br>
Electric plans to start removing the spent fuel from Reactor
Number 4 by March<br>
2014.</font><br>
. . . . . <br>
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Temperature remains high at damaged reactor<br>
An unknown rise in temperature at one of the reactors at the damaged
Fukushima<br>
nuclear plant is troubling its operator. Tokyo Electric says the
temperature hasn't<br>
gone down even after it increased the volume of cooling water on
Tuesday.<br>
One of the thermometers at the bottom of reactor No. 2 at the
Fukushima Daiichi<br>
plant gradually rose to about 70 degrees Celsius since January 27th.
It had stayed<br>
around 45 degrees before.<br>
In an effort to lower the temperature, the operator increased the
amount of water<br>
sprayed on the nuclear fuel by 3 tons to 13.5 tons per hour Tuesday
morning.<br>
But Tokyo Electric said readings were down only about 3 degrees
after some 5<br>
hours of operation, hardly showing signs of improvement.<br>
The utility said the flow of water in the reactor may have changed
after plumbing<br>
work in late January, causing difficulties in cooling part of the
melted nuclear<br>
fuel.<br>
It added that no temperature rise has been observed at 2 other
thermometers in<br>
the same reactor and that it will continue to carefully monitor the
reactor.<br>
<font color="#ff0000">TEPCO has been unable to visually confirm
conditions inside the reactors since<br>
the nuclear disaster last March because of high radiation.</font><br>
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 13:05 +0900 (JST)<br>
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Looks like TEPCO is right on schedule for their 40 year plan.
Anyone for <font color="#cc33cc">glowing Alaskan salmon</font>?
Chuck Kovis (<font color="#ff0000">My emphasis</font>)<br>
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