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Used fuel cooling system down at Fukushima: TEPCO

Published April 5, 2013 Updated April 5, 2013 06:33am

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By Parvez Jabri

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TOKYO: The system keeping spent atomic fuel cool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant stopped on Friday, its operator said, the latest glitch to hit the crippled site.

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) said an alarm sounded at the facility at 2:27 pm (0527 GMT), and technicians soon confirmed that the cooling system was not working for the pool attached to reactor 3, a spokesman said.

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