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Thu May 15, 2014, 08:35 AM May 2014

Kennedy vows U.S. help to Japan for Fukushima nuclear clean-up

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/us-japan-nuclear-kennedy-idUSBREA4D0EF20140514

Kennedy vows U.S. help to Japan for Fukushima nuclear clean-up
By Yoko Kubota
OKUMA, Japan Wed May 14, 2014 9:24am EDT


1 of 4. Wearing a protective suit and a mask, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy looks around the central control room for the unit one and unit two reactors of the tsunami-crippled Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture May 14, 2014.
Credit: Reuters/Toru Yamanaka/Pool


(Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy pledged U.S. support for the clean-up at Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday after her first visit to the site.

Kennedy, dressed in a white radiation protective suit with her name taped on the back and a mask covering her face, went inside a damaged reactor building where she saw how Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is removing fuel rod assemblies from a cooling pool.

Tepco has removed 814 out of 1,533 fuel rod assemblies from the No. 4 reactor since November.

"We stand ready to help in any way we can," Kennedy, 56, told reporters after her visit, when she made a stop at a Tepco facility near the nuclear power plant.

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Kennedy vows U.S. help to Japan for Fukushima nuclear clean-up (Original Post) bananas May 2014 OP
I'm not sure that was necessary--I hope she'll be okay. yurbud May 2014 #1
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