House energy and commerce subcommittee in Washington, D.C., and did not provide the source for his claim, but the NRC and the U.S. Jaczko made his statement Wednesday before a U.S. Company spokesman Hajime Motojuku said "the condition is stable," at the Unit 4 reactor, one of six at the plant. Japan's nuclear safety agency and Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima complex, denied that water was gone from the spent fuel pool. Without any water in the spent fuel pool, the fuel rods would eventually overheat and melt down, causing the outer rods to burn and spread radioactive fuel widely. "There is no water in the spent fuel pool and we believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures," NRC chairman Gregory Jaczko said. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who said water was absent from a reactor's spent fuel pool, raising the potential of a meltdown. (Herwig Pramme/Reuters)Japanese officials had earlier rejected a dire appraisal of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility by the head of the U.S. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano attends a news conference at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna on Tuesday. said, adding that the information had been obtained through aerial surveys from Wednesday. However, it was not known how much water was in the pool, a spokesperson with the Tokyo Electrc Power Co. Water cannon trucks borrowed from riot police were also on hand to spray down the reactors.Īt a news conference Thursday morning, Japanese officials said that contrary to some reports, the Fukushima plant's Unit 4 reactor still had water left in its spent fuel cooling pool. However, much of the water appeared to be dispersed in the wind in the first four rounds of drops.Ī similar plan was abandoned Wednesday after radiation levels were deemed too high to proceed safely. More than a dozen similar air drops were expected after the operation began.
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Two Japanese self-defence helicopters dumped loads of seawater over a crippled nuclear reactor on Thursday morning, in an effort to avoid a full meltdown as operators raced to restore the plant's cooling system.Įach of the CH-47 Chinook helicopters was able to dump 7.5-ton loads of water on the Fukushima Daiichi complex's Unit 3 reactor in northern Japan.
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