Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Tokyo Electric Says Two Nuclear Reactor Cores May Be Damaged - Businessweek

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. can’t rule out the possibility of damage to the cores of the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at its crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power complex, company spokesman Daisuke Hirose said.

Seventy percent of the fuel rods at the plant’s No. 1 reactor may be damaged. About one-third of the No. 2 reactor’s fuel may have been damaged, Hirose said.

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