Monday, 28. March 2011
Topic: nuclear power - on March 28, 2011 at 9:46:00 AM CEST
Japan trying to remove highly radioactive water at troubled nuke plant
Work to remove highly radioactive water from inside buildings at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant continued Monday, with the radiation level of a pool in the basement of the No. 2 reactor's turbine building measured at more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour.
Removal of such water in four reactor units is necessary to reduce the risk of more workers being exposed to radioactive substances, as the risk hinders efforts to restore the plant's crippled cooling functions, which are crucial to overcoming the crisis.
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