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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Reheating concern in the Fukushima reactor in Japan




Concern is growing that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is no longer stable after temperature readings indicated that one of its damaged reactors was reheating.
The temperature inside No 2 reactor may have reached 82C on today.
Tepco increased the amount of cooling water injected into the reactor along with a boric acid solution, which is used to prevent the fuel from undergoing sustained nuclear reactions.
The reheating may force the government to reverse its declaration two months ago that the crippled plant was in a safe state known as cold shutdown.
Tepco stated that the cause of the t temperature rise is unkown, and might be due to problems with the supply of coolant or a faulty thermometer.
Tepco was previously forced to inject additional cooling water into the same reactor last week after the temperature started rising.

  
 Fukushima reactor in Japan before the earthquack 

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