tepco to open second fukushima reactor building
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The first time since it was crippled

TEPCO to open second Fukushima reactor building

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Members of a Japanese government panel inspect the damage at the Fukushima nuclear power plant
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Members of a Japanese government panel inspect the damage at the Fukushima nuclear power plant Tokyo Electric Power Co. Sunday said it would open a second reactor building at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to send repair crews inside for the first time since it was crippled. Of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, reactors one to four were heavily damaged by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and deadly tsunami on March 11.
Last month, TEPCO opened a door for the structure housing reactor number one, and began work to build a system to cool it stably.
Junichi Matsumoto, TEPCO's nuclear official said the entrance to the reactor number two building would slowly be opened from Sunday evening "to make sure dust inside the building will not fly away".
"We believe this action should result in no impact to the environment," he said, adding that it should lower the 99.9-percent humidity inside the building.
Workers will then enter the facility to check on measuring tools inside and eventually start work to inject nitrogen into the reactor to prevent an explosion.
The world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 has caused radioactive material to spew into the air, ground and sea and forced the evacuation of 80,000 people in a 20-kilometre (12-mile) radius.
Workers have pumped water into reactor cores and fuel rod pools, leaving more than 100,000 tonnes of contaminated water in basements, drains and ditches, some of which has leaked into the ocean
More than four out of five Japanese want to see Tokyo abandon nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima atomic crisis, a survey said Sunday.
Resource-poor Japan relies on nuclear power for a third of its electricity supplies, and Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government has said it will remain a major pillar of the nation's energy policy.
But a survey in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper found that 82 per cent of Japanese wanted to see it phased out.
Just over nine percent wanted all reactors shut down immediately, while almost 19 percent said they should each be permanently decommissioned when their next routine inspection was due.
The majority, just under 54 per cent, wanted to have them shut down when electricity supply and demand allowed.
Only 14 percent wanted no change.
"The survey reflected the strength of the public's distrust in the government's nuclear policy," the newspaper said.

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