Japan reactor target met
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July 10, 2011, Sunday
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TOKYO Electric Power Co has met a government-set target of setting up a cooling system for the crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima within four months of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, a senior official was quoted as saying yesterday.
Goshi Hosono, the government minister appointed to oversee Japan's response to the nuclear crisis, said he believed Tokyo Electric had achieved its target of establishing a stable cooling system for the reactors, the first of a series of steps needed to shut down the plant by January.
The Fukushima nuclear plant lost power after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Three of the reactors had uranium fuel meltdown, and a series of hydrogen explosions scattered radioactive debris across a wide area.
Some 80,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area around the plant because of the threat from radiation.
The government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, under fire for weeks for the handling of the disaster, had set a target of July 17 for getting a cooling system set up for the damaged uranium fuel still in the reactors. "We will be able to achieve our initial goal thanks to the strenuous efforts of workers at the site," Hosono was quoted as saying by the Nikkei Business Daily.
Government and Tokyo Electric officials are set to provide an update on efforts to stabilize Fukushima on July 19, about four months after the disaster.
Goshi Hosono, the government minister appointed to oversee Japan's response to the nuclear crisis, said he believed Tokyo Electric had achieved its target of establishing a stable cooling system for the reactors, the first of a series of steps needed to shut down the plant by January.
The Fukushima nuclear plant lost power after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Three of the reactors had uranium fuel meltdown, and a series of hydrogen explosions scattered radioactive debris across a wide area.
Some 80,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area around the plant because of the threat from radiation.
The government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, under fire for weeks for the handling of the disaster, had set a target of July 17 for getting a cooling system set up for the damaged uranium fuel still in the reactors. "We will be able to achieve our initial goal thanks to the strenuous efforts of workers at the site," Hosono was quoted as saying by the Nikkei Business Daily.
Government and Tokyo Electric officials are set to provide an update on efforts to stabilize Fukushima on July 19, about four months after the disaster.
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