Cooling partially restored at Fukushima Daiichi, cause of power outage still unknown

19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company says they’ve restored cooling of spent fuel pools on the number 1, 2 and 4 reactors. This is the first time TEPCo mentioned Reactor 2 as being affected by the power outage.  Cooling for Reactor 4 pool is being powered by emergency generators.

Cooling is still on hold for the fuel pool on Reactor 3, and a shared pool in Fukushima Daiichi’s  compound.  TEPCo hopes to have cooling restored by tomorrow.

TEPCo has inspected the switchboards from three high voltage distribution systems, and say it appears nothing is wrong with them.   Ironically the electric power company still doesn’t know what caused the massive power outage.