Tuesday
May242011
New attempts to cool high-level radioactive waste storage pools at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan
According to NHK public broadcaster in Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced the installation of heat exchangers in the Unit 2 atomic reactor building intended to help cool the unit's distressed high-level radioactive waste storage pool. The Unit 1 and Unit 3 reactor buildings are to similarly get heat exchangers in June, and the Unit 4 reactor building in July, in a bid to prevent any further high-level radioactive waste fires, as occurred in the Unit 4 pool in the initial days of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.