Tepco Plans New System to Cool Reactors

Tepco said Sunday it aims to establish a water-circulation system to ensure continuous cooling of the spent-fuel pools at its stricken Fukushima Daiichi reactors by the end of July.

The troubled utility, known as Tepco, said it plans to build a cooling system with water-circulation pumps and heat-exchange equipment by the end of May at the reactor No. 2 spent-fuel pool, by June at the reactors No.1 and No. 3 pools, and a cooling system with an enhanced ability by July at the reactor No. 4 pool, Tepco official Junichi Matsumoto told a news conference in Tokyo on Sunday. The reactor No. 4 spent-fuel pool generates more heat than the others, he said, because the rods that have remaining active life are in it.

Source: Wall Street Journal