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Posted: 26 Mar 2014 06:42 AM
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Workers
stand in front of the Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool
Workers at the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant have been forced to halt removal of spent fuel
rods from the Reactor 4 spent fuel pool.
The pool contains 1,533 fuel
rods, 1,331 of which are highly radioactive spent fuel rods. As of Wednesday,
550 fuel rods have been retrieved from the spent fuel pool.
Around 9:30 am on Wednesday,
while workers were attaching a hook to a large crane to retrieve a cask
containing 22 spent fuel rods from within the pool, an alarm sounded and
forced the work to come to a halt.
The utility is still working to
determine the cause of the problem, but report that they have not detected an
increase in radiation levels around the pool.
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fuel retrieval from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 to a halt
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