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Is a Power Cable Attached to the Japanese Nuke Plant? Or Not?

March 18, 2011 at 8:21 PM Leave a comment

OK.  I’ve had enough:  Over the last 24-hours I’ve heard that Japan has attached, might have attached, or is working on attaching a power cable to the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Time to establish a touchstone:

Reuters:  Japan Lays Power Cable in Race to Stop Radiation:

Exhausted engineers attached a power cable to the outside of Japan’stsunami-crippled nuclear plant on Saturday in a race to prevent deadly radiation from an accident now rated at least as bad as America’s Three Mile Island incident in 1979.

Further cabling inside was under way before an attempt to restart water pumps needed to cool overheated nuclear fuel rods at the six-reactor Fukushima plant in northeastern Japan, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.

Reuters

So.  This is the word as of Friday night and I’m bouncing everything I hear from now on off of this.

Either it’s attached or it isn’t.

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