Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said his staff in Tokyo had been told by
Japanese utility officials that cooling water that normally covers spent fuel was nearly or totally gone from an uncovered concrete pool above reactor Unit 4.
Not exact matches
Dixon added that the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, generated by an earthquake on a similar fault to the one that produced Japan's great earthquake, should have been a prod to
Japanese officials and
utilities to reexamine their plans and systems: