From: Jiji Press
Tokyo, Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> said Friday that its failure to prevent escape from pipes spoiled cooling water injections by fire engines to reactor cores at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant immediately after its accident on March 11, 2011.
Because valves on pipes connected to the reactor pressure vessels were left open, the water injected to cool the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors may have escaped and ran into other linked devices, such as condensers and storage tanks, and not have fully reached the reactor cores, TEPCO said.
TEPCO admitted the possibility that the failure speeded up the unfolding disaster at the plant struck by the huge earthquake and tsunami but said it was difficult to close the valves at the time because of high levels of radiation.
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