TEPCO restores spent fuel pool cooling system

TEPCO restores spent fuel pool cooling system

TOKYO, Japan - Aerial photo shows buildings housing the Nos. 1 to 4 reactor units (from L to R) at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on March 19, 2013. TEPCO said the same day it has resumed cooling the spent fuel pools of the Nos. 1, 3 and 4 reactors at the crippled nuclear power plant, a day after the key system was suspended due to a suspected problem with a power switchboard.

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