Friday, July 15, 2011

Japan Reactor Shut Down, No Radiation Leaks


Japan's Kansai Electric Power Company says it plans to manually shut down the Number One reactor at its Ohi power plant Saturday because of a technical problem, but no radiation leakage had occurred.
Kansai officials said the reactor, located about 350 kilometers west of Tokyo, will be closed for checks after pressure in a tank containing boric acid water fell briefly Friday night for unknown reasons. The pressure has since come back up to normal.
The shutdown will worsen a power shortage caused by the meltdown of the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Number One plant, hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami

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