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  • UPDATE: News Brief: 3/18/11, 10 AM EDT [Fukushima-MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub]

    03/18/2011 9:30:46 AM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 13 replies
    MIT NSE ^ | 3/18/11, 10 AM EDT | mitnse
    Spraying of spent fuel pools at Units 3 and 4 is still underway. Visual inspection of Unit 4’s pool showed water in the pool, and so efforts have been temporarily focused upon Unit 3. While efforts at using helicopters to dump water onto the pools had been largely unsuccessful , army firetrucks used in putting out aircraft fires have been employed with some success. The elite Tokyo Hyper Rescue component of the Tokyo fire department has arrived on scene and is conducting missions of roughly two hours in length, during which they spray the pools for 7-8 minutes, wait for...