TEPCO reported today that it has started a water circulation system to cool one of the spent fuel pool's at the Fukushima Daichi reactor. Buried in the report TEPCO also admits that an accident at the site today caused a "temporary" oil leak into the sea.
Maybe its just us, but this seems rather minor compared to the problem of 3 nuclear reactors in full-blown meltdown releasing over 204 SIEVERTS of radiation per hour!
We are hope that the oil leak will be just as temporary as the radiation leak from Fukushima.
From Kyodo:
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Tuesday that it has started to fully operate a water circulation system to stably cool one of the pools storing spent nuclear fuel at the plant, marking progress in its efforts to bring the nuclear crisis under control.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, meanwhile, it had discovered that oil temporarily leaked into the sea near the plant located on the Pacific coast, while an oxygen cylinder ruptured during work to remove rubble earlier in the day.
The utility known as TEPCO is trying to contain the world's worst nuclear crisis since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in line with a road map that aims to stabilize sometime between October and January the plant's reactors and spent fuel pools, which lost their key cooling functions in the wake of the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
