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John F. Kennedy, July 26th, 1963

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Agency plans to re-create ‘meltdown’

FROM: The Japan News



The Yomiuri ShimbunThe Japan Atomic Energy Agency will conduct an experiment next fiscal year to re-create on a small scale the meltdown that occurred at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake, it was learned on Wednesday.
The experiment will gather data necessary to study what exactly happened to three of the reactors at the plant and is expected to uncover missing pieces in the puzzle over how and when the fuel rods overheated and melted down at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
Only limited available data have been used to compute how and when a meltdown occurred, leaving many holes in investigations into the nuclear accident.
“We’d like to find out what phenomena occurred in the accident and use the data to work out responses in the event of another nuclear power plant accident,” an agency official said.
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