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SEEM LIKE A GOOD NEWS FOR JAPANSun Mar 20, 2011 3:36am EDBy Taiga Uranaka and Yoko Nishikawa
TOKYO, March 20 (Reuters) - Japan saw some success
in its race to avert disaster at a tsunami-damaged
power plant, though minor radiation leaks underlined
perils from the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl 25
years ago. Three hundred engineers have been battling inside
a danger zone to salvage the six-reactor Fukushima plant since
it was hit by an earthquake and tsunami that also killed
7,653 people and left 11,746 more missing in
northeast Japan. The unprecedented multiple crisis will cost the world's
third largest economy nearly $200 billion and require
Japan's biggest reconstruction push since post-World War
II. It has also set back nuclear power plans the world over.
Encouragingly for Japanese transfixed on work at the Fukushima complex, the most critical reactor -- No. 3 which has highly toxic plutonium -- stabilised after fire trucks doused it for hours with hundreds of tonnes of water.
Work also advanced on bringing power back to water pumps used to cool overheating nuclear fuel.
"We are making progress ... (but) we shouldn't be too optimistic," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy-general at Japan's Nuclear Safety Agency.
Read more:http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/20/japan-idUSL3E7EJ08F20110320
Rise up Japan...u r strong!
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