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100 miles from Fukushima: Leak from spent fuel pools at two reactors after 7.4 quake — Cooling system temporarily stopped

Published: April 8th, 2011 at 10:56 am ET
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Water leaks from Onagawa atomic plant after latest quake, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 8, 2011:

… Tohoku Electric Power Co, which runs the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant in Miyagi prefecture, said water leaked from spent-fuel pools at two reactors and also from other parts of the plant. …

The plant, whose operations have been suspended since a magnitude-9 March 11 earthquake, lost two of its three external power connections in Thursday night’s [7.4 magnitude] aftershock, causing the cooling system for the spent-fuel pools to temporarily stop. …

Thursday’s quake killed three people and injured about 140…

Read the report here.

Published: April 8th, 2011 at 10:56 am ET
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