The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Japan is shown on Nov. 15, 2009, left, and on Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/GeoEye, DigitalGlobe)
Nine months before the March earthquake and tsunami cut off power to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, one of its reactors suffered a loss of electricity under much more mundane circumstances.
(Read the full post from the Wall Street Journal...)
The wsj article is almost TMI. (too much info, not three mile island). A surprising amount of detail, about the 2010 event’s exact cause.