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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
February 8, 2012
TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power Co. was forced to use boric acid at its crippled Fukushima atomic plant to prevent an accidental chain reaction known as re-criticality after temperatures rose in a reactor in the past week.
The temperature of the No. 2 reactor was 68.5 degrees Celsius....