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More cooling needed after Fukushima reactor heats up -Asahi

Published: July 24th, 2012 at 12:20 pm ET
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(Subscription Only) Title: After 500 days, Fukushima No. 1 plant still not out of the woods
Source: Asahi, AJW
Author: By TAKASHI SUGIMOTO
Date: July 24, 2012

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After TEPCO declared last December that a state of cold shutdown had been achieved, it established new safety standards that called for maintaining core temperatures at 80 degrees or less. Because the temperature of the water being pumped into the pressure vessel to cool the nuclear fuel has gone up since summer, the temperature within the pressure vessel has risen slightly to between 35 and 55 degrees. For that reason, equipment was installed from July to cool the water before it is pumped in.

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Published: July 24th, 2012 at 12:20 pm ET
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