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June 23, 2014

Fukushima operator restarts water decontamination system
Tokyo (AFP) June 22, 2014
Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday restarted its trouble-plagued water decontamination system for the first time in three months, the utility said. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has been forced to repeatedly switch off its Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), which purifies radiation-tainted water, due to a series of glitches plaguing the system since trial operations began last year. The system has three lines via which it cleans water used to cool reactors at the Fukus ... read more

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