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Affected by the earthquake, the cooling system of a spent fuel pool at the Fukushima nuclear power plant stopped |
China News Service, March 17. According to Kyodo News, on the 16th local time, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurred in the waters near Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Affected by the earthquake, the cooling system of the spent fuel pool of Unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was stopped. However, TEPCO said the water temperature did not exceed the red line.
TEPCO said that at around 0:10 on the 17th local time, due to the low water level in the water tank connected to the spent fuel pool, the staff manually turned off the water pump switch.
According to reports, there are 615 fuel rods in the pool. TEPCO said that even if cooling is stopped, the current water temperature has not risen to the operational management limit of 65 degrees Celsius.
In addition, the spent fuel pools of Unit 5 of the nuclear power plant and Units 1 and 3 of the second nuclear power plant were also stopped for a while, but they were restored soon. In addition, in the first nuclear power plant, a water storage tank for storing nuclear-contaminated water was shifted in position.
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