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DamonBlackon Jun 15, 2011 10:45am
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Spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake
Spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quakeS: Spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press
Published 07:21 a.m., Wednesday, June 15, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says early fears that all the water was gone from spent fuel pools at the stricken nuclear complex in Japan were unfounded.
The NRC says new video shows that spent fuel pools at Unit 4 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex probably did not go dry, as NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczkohad insisted in March. Japanese officials had denied Jaczko's claim,which was based on information from NRC staff and other experts who wentto Japan after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
BillBorchardt, the NRC's executive director for operations, said Wednesdaythat U.S. officials welcomed the video evidence as "good news" and oneindication that the meltdown at the Fukushima plant "may not have beenas serious as was believed."