New attempts to cool high-level radioactive waste storage pools at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan
May 24, 2011
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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.

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