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Two years after quake,
nuke plant still crippled

Fukushima slow to
recover following
2011 meltdown
TOKYO (AP) - A rat causing a
power outage by short-circuiting
a temporary switchboard. Anoth-
er blackout occurring as work-
ers install anti-rat nets. Holes in
the linings of huge underground
tanks leakingradioactive water.
Japan's crippled Fukushima
Dai-ichi nuclear power plant
has run into multiple problems
recently that highlightits precar-
ious state more than two years
after its reactors melted down in
the wake of a devastating earth-
quake and tsunami.
A makeshift system of pipes,
tanks and power cables meant
to carry cooling water into the
melted reactors and spent fuel
pools inside shattered buildings
remains highly vulnerable, Nucle-
ar RegulationAuthority chairman
Shunichi Tanaka acknowledged
Wednesday.
"Fukushima Dai-ichi is still in
an extremely unstable condition,
there is no mistake about that,"

Tanaka said at a weekly meeting
of the regulatory body's leaders.
"We cannot rule out the possibil-
ity that similar problems might
occur again. Whenever aproblem
occurs, it halts the plant's opera-
tions and delays the primary goal
of decommissioningthe plant."
The problems have raised
doubts about whether the plant
can stay intact through a decom-
missioning process that could
take 40 years, prompting offi-
cials to compile risk-reduction
measures and revise decommis-
sioning plans. The regulatory
watchdog said Wednesday that
it was increasing the number of
inspectors from eight to nine to
better oversee the plant.
Just over the past three weeks,
there have been at least eight
accidents or problems at the
plant, the nuclear watchdog said.
The first was March 18, when
a rat sneaked into an outdoor
switchboard - which was sitting
on a pickup truck - powering
the jury-rigged cooling system
and several other key parts of
the plant, causing a short-circuit
and blackout that lasted 30 hours
in some areas of the plant. Four

ED ANDRIESKI/AP
Fox reporter Jana Winter, right, at a hearing for Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes in Centennial, Colo.,
Wednesday. A judge will decide whether Winter must reveal an anonymous source she cited in an article about Holmes.
Cob, shooter hearing
delayed by reporter

Judge yet to decide
if journalist must
name source
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) -
The judge in the Colorado theater
shootings refused again Wednes-
day to make a quick decision on
whether to order a Fox News
reporter to reveal her confiden-
tial sources for a story she wrote
last year.
In the article, New York-
based reporter Jana Winter
cited anonymous law-enforce-
ment sources who said shoot-
ing suspect James Holmes sent
a notebook containing violent
drawings to a University of Colo-
rado, Denver psychiatrist before
the attack.
Holmes, who had been a stu-
dent at the university, is charged
with fatally shooting 12 people
and injuring 70 at a movie theater
in the Denver suburb of Aurora
on July 20. A judge has entered
a not guilty plea on his behalf.
Prosecutors are seeking the
death penalty.
Holmes' lawyers want to

know the names of the officials
who spoke to Winter. They
argue the leak violated a gag
order and could weaken the
credibility of those officials if
they are called to testify in a
trial.
Defense attorney Rebecca
Higgs suggested Wednesday
that law-enforcement officers
may have lied under oath when
they denied speaking to Winter.
That was sufficient reason to
require Winter to testify, Higgs
said.
Pacing and gesturing, Higgs
argued the issue is whether a law
enforcement officer decided to
"flat-out lie."
Judge Carlos Samour Jr. said
he would not make a decision on
Winter's sources until he rules
on whether the notebook will be
admitted as evidence, reiterating
a written order he issued Mon-
day.
He told Winter she would have
to return for another hearing
Aug. 19.
Winter argues she should
not have to identify her sources
under Colorado and New York
shield laws that protect report-

ers' sources under some circum-
stances.
If the judge orders her to reveal
her sources and she refuses, she
could be jailed.
In December, 20 law-enforce-
ment officers testified or sub-
mitted affidavits saying they
did not speak to Winter. One of
them, Aurora police Detective
Alton Reed, took the stand again
Wednesday and said he spoke
only to an Aurora police sergeant
about what he saw in the note-
book. That sergeant already has
testified that he did not speak to
Winter.
The judge on Wednesday also
ordered both sides not to discuss
plea negotiations in future court
filings, saying that violated state
judicial rules.
Last month, defense lawyers
said in a court filingthat Holmes
had offered to plead guilty if
prosecutors would agree to a
life sentence. That prompted an
angry response from prosecu-
tors, who said in their own filing
thatthe offer wasn'tgenuine and
accused the defense of trying to
drum up public pressure for a
deal.

storage pools for fuel rods lost
cooling during the outage, caus-
ing Tokyo Electric Power Co., the
plant's operator, to acknowledge
that it had added backup power
only to the reactors, despite
repeated concerns raised over a
pool meltdown.
The cause of the outage wasn't
clear at the time, but TEPCO later
released a photo of the electro-
cuted rat, which had fallen onthe
bottom of the switchboard out-
house. The most extensive out-
age since the crisis started after
the March 2011 disasters caused
some Fukushima residents to 4
even consider evacuation.
Two weeks later, a new water
processing machine designed
to remove most radioactive ele-
ments temporarily stopped after
a worker pushed a wrong button.
The next day, one of the fuel stor-
age pools lost power again for
several hours when part of a wire
short-circuited a switchboard
while an operator installed anti-
rat nets. TEPCO reported three
other minor glitches on the same
day, including overheating of
equipmentrelatedto boron injec-
tion to the melted reactors.
Iorders'
ary
neighbors and backed by the
United States. Hadi has since
been trying to remove former
regime loyalists over concerns
that Saleh was using them to
further destabilize the turmoil-
wracked country.
Washington has expressed
concern that some in'the mili-
tary have been taking advantage
of their positions for personal
gain to interfere in the country's
transition, since regime change
threatens their personal inter-
6sta. The U.N. Security Council
warned Saleh directly that he
could face sanctions if attempts 4
to undermine the new national
unity government persist.

Yee rsdnoverhaul of milit

Officers from prior
regime thrown out
in dramatic change
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -
Yemen's president removed his
predecessor's son and nephews
from powerful security posts
on Wednesday in the most dra-
matic step yet in sidelining old
regime figures, according to the
nation's state-run media.
Former President Ali Abdul-
lah Saleh, who stepped down
in early 2012 after more than
a year of protests against his
rule, placed relatives and loy-

alists in top military and gov-
ernment posts over his 33-year
rule.
They have been accused of
obstructing the U.S.-backed
government as it tries to reform
and fight an active al-Qaida
branch in the impoverished
Arab nation.
Fireworks went off in the
capital, Sanaa, and Yemen's sec-
ond largest city, Taiz, after the
announcement. Restructuring
the army was a top demand by
Yemenis afterSalebh's'ouster.
His vice president, Abed
Rabbo Mansour Hadi, took over
in a power transfer deal bro-
kered by Yemen's powerful Gulf

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