The government has a target of the end of the year to bring the plant to a cold shutdown, when the reactors are stable and thewater inside them is no longer boiling.
Mr Ishizuka acknowledges that the company is taking a risk, though given that Hitachi knows how to build advanced boilingwater reactors and that it now owns the land on which to build them, he is firmly optimistic.
Kelly is working with Michael W.W. Adams, a biochemistry professor at the University of Georgia who is an expert in microbes that live in places hotter than 212 degrees Fahrenheit, theboiling point of water.