Radioactive
Reality (20 March 2013) Mouse Kills Fukushima Power
The blackout was caused by a mouse in the panel board, the board has been left on the truck since 3/18/2011http://fukushima-diary.com/category/d...
11:45 AM EST on March 20th, 2013
Fairewinds: Radiation release during massive power failure at Fukushima Daiichi — 24-hour outage is unconscionable, shows plant unstablehttp://enenews.com/
The blackout was caused by a mouse in the panel board, the board has been left on the truck since 3/18/2011http://fukushima-diary.com/category/d...
11:45 AM EST on March 20th, 2013
Fairewinds: Radiation release during massive power failure at Fukushima Daiichi — 24-hour outage is unconscionable, shows plant unstablehttp://enenews.com/
TOKYO: The operator of
the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it has found what
it believes is the cause of an extended blackout that disabled vital
cooling systems earlier this week: the charred body of a rat.
The operator, Tokyo
Electric Power, said when its engineers looked inside a faulty
switchboard, they found burn marks and the rodent's scorched body.
The company said it appeared the rat had somehow short-circuited the
switchboard, possibly by gnawing on cables.
TEPCO has blamed
problems with the switchboard for the power failure that began on
Monday, cutting off the flow of cooling water to four pools used to
store more than 8800 nuclear fuel rods. It took TEPCO almost a day
to restore cooling to the first of the affected pools, with cooling
of the final pool resuming early on Wednesday
TEPCO said it would have
taken several days for temperatures in the pools to have risen above
the safe level of 65 degrees. Still, the blackout served as an
uncomfortable reminder to many Japanese about the continuing
vulnerability of the plant, which suffered a triple meltdown in
March 2011 after a huge earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling
systems. It was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Two years later, the
Fukushima plant still relies on makeshift cooling systems, some of
which were built as stopgap measures in the frantic weeks after the
accident. The spent fuel pools have been a particular source of
concern because they contain much more radioactive material than the
three reactor cores that melted down two years ago, forcing the
evacuation of 160,000 people.
A TEPCO spokesman,
Masayuki Ono, said temperatures in the pools were cooling, though it
would take several days for them to get back to their pre-blackout
levels.
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