Tokyo, April 6 (IANS) The operator of Japan’s Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant, a facility currently being decommissioned, has said it suspended cooling of a spent fuel pool after a pump malfunction triggered an alert. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) said an alarm for the spent fuel pool of the plant’s No. 1 reactor went off at around 2:45 p.m. local time on Sunday. Workers shut down the pump after smoke was detected at the site, halting the pool’s cooling system, reports Xinhua…
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Tokyo, Jan 22 (IANS) Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said on Thursday it suspended operation at the just-restarted reactor of a nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture after an alarm went off.The alarm was triggered at 00:28 a.m. local time after equipment to manoeuvre the control rods apparently had an issue, according to TEPCO.TEPCO said it suspended work at reactor No. 6 to withdraw control rods, which are used to adjust the nuclear fission of a reactor, and it is looking into …