TOKYO: Engineers at Fukushima were scrambling Tuesday to restore power to cooling systems after an outage, in the latest incident to underline the precarious fix at the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant.
Equipment on pools used to keep used fuel cool - necessary to prevent any spontaneous nuclear reactions - have not had any electricity since it was cut at 7 pm (1000 GMT) on Monday, operator TEPCO said.
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