Japan connects power cable in race to stop radiation
03/20/2011OSAKA — Engineers at a stricken nuclear plant in Japan yesterday managed to connect an electricity cable to one of the reactors and battled to restore power to the cooling system to avert a full-blown meltdown.
The announcement offered some hope of a breakthrough in efforts to prevent a major radiation leak from the troubled facility, although it is not yet clear whether the cooling system will work properly even if the power comes back on.
The government, meanwhile, said it had discovered abnormal levels of radiation that exceeded the legal limit in milk and spinach from areas near the stricken plant, but they posed no immediate threat to humans.
Electricity was expected to be restored to reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima plant on Sunday, more than a week after it was rocked by a massive earthquake and tsunami, the nuclear safety agency said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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