Fukushima Crisis Awakes After Reactor Heats Up Mysteriously
Just when you thought it was over, the temperature at reactor
number 2 at Fukushima's nuclear plant has soared 26.7 degrees
Celsius in the last few hours. Worse: they don't know why the
temperature is increasing after being stabilized for so long.
The reactor reached 164 degrees Fahrenheit (73.3 degrees
Celsius) after being stabilized at 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45
degrees Celsius) since last December. Here's the latest official
update by Tepco, the owner of the plant:  At this moment,
temperature indicates approx. 71.0 °C (as of 11:00 am on
February 6). We will monitor it continuously.  The reactors were
finally shut down cold after ten months of dramatic struggle by
company and emergency workers.  Tepco has admitted that they
don't have a clue about what is going on. They have increased
the amount of water pumped into the reactor ten percent, but
their technicians don't know what is going on. The change was
detected in one of the three thermometer