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Repair work at Fukushima nuclear reactor hampered by high radiation levels

High Radiation Levels Continue to Hamper Work at Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant, Voice of America, 26 March 11, Steve Herman | Tokyo High radiation levels at a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant continue to slow efforts to bring the situation under control. The Fukushima-1 complex has suffered repeated trouble since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11.

Workers at the Fukushima-1 nuclear plant are trying to remove pools of highly radioactive water that may have seeped from reactor cores or  where used fuel rods are stored at four of the six reactors.

It is the latest challenge at the crippled facility, which has been beset by a series of hydrogen explosions and radiation leaks since the March 11 tsunami destroyed its cooling system.  Since then, fire engines and concrete trucks have been used to pour thousands of tons of seawater onto the reactors and into the fuel rod pools……
High Radiation Levels Continue to Hamper Work at Crippled Japanese Nuclear Plant | News | English

March 26, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | - Fukushima 2011