Hours earlier, the plant operator switched off a reactor cooling system after discovering rats near critical equipment.
The plant operator said it hoped to reduce radiation leaks in three months and to cool the reactors within nine months.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) the plant operator, instituted power cuts for 5 million households in the area for three hours today.
The next five days quickly devolved into a media circus, with confusion sowed by poor communications from the plant operator, Metropolitan Edison.
Probably the last thing plant operator Ouchi Hisashi saw before he passed out was a blue flash in the concentration of uranium he was mixing in a steel vat.
The indictment also charges Michael Parnell, who is Stewart Parnell's brother and a former supervisor, as well as Samuel Lightsey, a onetime plant operator, with many violations related to the company's alleged deceptions.
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Japanese media have became more critical of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's handling of the disaster, and have accused both the government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co of failing to provide enough information on the incident.
While some people might not immediately associate blue-collar occupations with higher-level formal education, some of these managers and supervisors must have extensive knowledge of business or sciences to perform the tasks of, for example, power plant operator or agricultural manager.
The plant's operator, Tepco, had intended to cool reactor 1 by filling the containment chamber with water.
Carl Rhode of Entergy, the plant's operator, told WGNO that the threat to the intake system is not a matter of nuclear safety.
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The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said exposure to radiation levels in the No 3 reactor for four-and-a-half hours would exceed the emergency safety limit for power plant workers.
It could be a long wait, says the BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo, as the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), has said it aims to bring the reactors to a cold shutdown within nine months.
He is furious with Tokyo Electric Power, operator of the plant, for failing to acknowledge the long-term impacts of the disaster.
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It spares neither the government nor Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the operator of the nuclear plant.
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In the 11-state Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator grid, coal-plant utilization has fallen to 45 to 55 percent from 70 to 80 percent in 2010-11, according to RBN, a Houston-based energy market-research firm.
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It has become clear that TEPCO, the operator of the Dai-Ichi plant, has covered up safety and maintenance issues for years and may have dragged its feet responding to the current crisis trying to preserve its assets.
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The problems are so far "beyond the design capacity" of the plant that the Japanese are working in uncharted territory, said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at U.S. nuclear power plants.
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