Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, April 9, 2011 (11:30 A.M. EDT)

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2011 – UPDATE AS OF 11:30 A.M. EDT.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has increased its efforts to remove highly radioactive water that is slowing restoration of reactor cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum reports.

For the last several days, TEPCO workers have been discharging low-level radioactive water from a storage tank to the Pacific Ocean to make room for highly contaminated water that…