#Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reactor No.3 Loses Core Cooling Mechanism

Translating Nikkei Shinbun's latest (7:10PM Japan Standard Time, 3/13/2011):

TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) announced at 6PM that the cooling mechanism of the reactor No.3 at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has been lost. Due to the power outage since yesterday, the High Pressure Core Flooder System shut itself down.

That brings the total number of the reactors with nuclear emergency to 6 (No.1, 2, 3 reactors at Fukushima I, No.1, 2, 4 reactors at Fukushima II).

And remember, ALL of the emergency power generators on site FAILED. Clearly, judging from this news, the Self Defense Force or TEPCO hasn't been able to ship any of the emergency power generators that they supposedly have.

CAN ANYONE HELP? THE US MILITARY? ANYONE? Can anyone help the government of Japan from its stupidity and offer to airlift these generators?

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