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Kyodo: Alarm sounds at Fukushima plant, Unit 4 cooling system stops (VIDEO)
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NHK, Feb. 24, 2014 at 9:39p ET: Fukushima No.4 reactor pool’s cooling fan halts — The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says a cooling fan for the spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor has stopped working. [Tepco] announced on Tuesday that a warning alarm for an electrical problem went off [...] it will switch to the second one and cooling should resume by around 1 PM. [...] a nearby electrical cable may have been damaged in excavation work.
Kyodo News, Feb. 25, 2014: (Translation) Spent fuel cooling system stops at Fukushima No. 4 reactor — Fukushima 4 reactor spent fuel pool cooling stops, the leakage warning sounded in the nuclear power facility.
Tepco, Feb. 25, 2014: (Translation) Cooling systems at Fukushima Unit 4 spent fuel pool now offline [...] around 9:00 am, in road excavation between the Process Main Building and incineration building, hurt the cable [...] no abnormality in the voltage value of the power plant, and has continued the supply of power [...]
Watch the NHK broadcast here (Japanese only)
Published: February 24th, 2014 at 11:12 pm ET
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