Cooling system fails in second reactor : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has lost its ability to supply water to its core, a failure that has lowered the level of cooling water in the reactor and exposed a good part of nuclear fuel rods, the operator of the facility said Sunday.

Failure of the water pump has made it impossible to cool the high temperatures inside the reactor, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co.

As of 7:30 a.m., 2.95 meters of the 4-meter nuclear fuel rods were exposed because of diminished water levels in the reactor.

Cooling system fails in second reactor : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)