Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Water spurts from hose at Unit 5
(Image provided by TEPCO)
July 3, 2011, Okumamachi, Japan - Seawater gushes from the ruptured hose connected to one of the two outside temporary seawater cooling pumps of the residual heat removal system for the No. 5 reactor unit at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, some 210km northeast of Tokyo, on Sunday, July 3, 2011.
Some three hours after the leakage was found by an employee of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant operator known as TEPCO, the cooling pump and the residual heat removal system were stopped for replacing the busted water pipe, said the TEPCO. The temperature inside the reactor unit rose slightly before the cooling operations resumed. The Photo was released by TEPCO on July 3. (Photo by TEPCO/AFLO) [0006] -mis-