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Trouble delayed cold shutdown of Hamaoka nuke reactor
Kyodo News ^ | 05/15/11

Posted on 05/15/2011 6:52:17 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Trouble delayed cold shutdown of Hamaoka nuke reactor

SHIZUOKA, Japan, May 15, Kyodo

Chubu Electric Power Co. said Sunday that cooling system trouble delayed the 'cold shutdown' of the No. 5 reactor at its Hamaoka power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture for about two hours earlier in the day, while ruling out any external release of radioactive substances.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.kyodonews.jp ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; hamaoka; radiation; reactor

1 posted on 05/15/2011 6:52:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Is there another source? I am not going to subscribe to read it.


2 posted on 05/15/2011 6:56:53 AM PDT by mountainlion (America land of the free because of the Brave.)
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To: mountainlion

I tried to find another English source, but could not. I am sure it will turn up soon.


3 posted on 05/15/2011 7:06:05 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...

P!


4 posted on 05/15/2011 7:06:25 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I am sure it will turn up soon.

Not in any US media...

5 posted on 05/15/2011 8:17:09 AM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: bgill

Fortunately, many in the world can write decent articles in English these days, so I will fish them out.


6 posted on 05/15/2011 8:21:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They apparently have found seawater mixed in with the closed circuit coolant fresh water. Possible earthquake damage.

Seawater found in coolant at Hamaoka plant

7 posted on 05/15/2011 4:22:13 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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