Nuke plant has 38-hour margin for meltdown

Kyodo

 

Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Saturday released an estimate saying that if the water injections cooling its stricken Fukushima power plant are halted again, the fuel rods could start melting within 38 hours, unleashing another wave of cancerous radioactive fallout.

If the plant is hit by another quake and tsunami as powerful as the March 11 disasters, resuming water injections into reactors 1, 2 and 3 will take three hours at most, the beleaguered utility said.   Read More

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