Stricken Japan Reactor Just Passed Probe for Next Decade
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A month after Japan approved its second-oldest nuclear station to keep running for another decade, engineers are fighting to avert a meltdown at the 40-year-old plant hit by the country’s worst earthquake.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. is flushing three reactors at its Fukushima plant with water after cooling systems failed and a blast tore through a containment building. The accident comes less than four years after a quake shut another plant run by the utility and in the wake of industry scandals involving faked repair reports and fatal accidents.