Published: May 23rd, 2012 at 5:02 pm ET
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Concerns focus on Fukushima unit stability
UPI
May 23, 2012
Whether a pool where spent fuel is stored at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant could withstand another strong earthquake has become a source of growing concern.The concerns among activists, experts and politicians focus on Unit 4, which contains most of the plant’s spent fuel not stored in dry, hardened storage casks, Stars and Stripes reported.
After the 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, an investigative report by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, an independent think tank started to investigate the causes of the plant disaster, cited among risks a loss of cooling water in Unit 4.
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public trust in Tepco remains low, Stars and Stripes said, and calls for more efforts to empty and secure Unit 4 continue in Japan and beyond.
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Published: May 23rd, 2012 at 5:02 pm ET
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empty number 1 and 2 and 3 as well! is it me or are the reports always blinkered? there are 4 spent fuel pools that need urgent attention and yet the debating club continues.. how about another long tepco holiday in the middle of it? there is no time!
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Snowwy, spent fuel pool 3 is gone. Didn't you see that massive explosion?
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This video might have already been posted, but worth repeating:
Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future: Mrs. & Mr. Gundersen 05.12. 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkqK51is3no
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