Tokyo, Oct. 2 (Jiji Press)—Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> has estimated that the interruption for about 38 hours of water injection into the cores of its crippled nuclear reactors would prompt their nuclear fuels to melt again.
Unless water injection is restarted about 18 hours after being stopped, a massive amount of radioactive substances would be released into the environment, TEPCO estimated.
In the estimate for the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors at the March disaster-ravaged (…)
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