Workers Strive to Restore Power to Stricken Nuclear Plant
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Engineers plan to work into the night to restore power to two of the crippled reactors at Japan’s damaged Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant, while Prime Minister Naoto Kan described the crisis as “very grave.”
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it may finish reconnecting a power line to the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors by tomorrow morning. The electrical link would be used to restart pumps needed to protect fuel rods from overheating. However, the company said it’s possible the water pumps, damaged in the March 11 tsunami, might not work even with power, Hikaru Kuroda, chief of Tepco’s nuclear facility management department said tonight in a Tokyo news conference.