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Cooling Water Injection Secured for Unit 3 Reactor Core: At 10:02 a.m. on December 5, a core injection pump (B) for the Unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station stopped operating, but the system resumed its cooling function at 11:00 a.m. after workers manually started an alternative pump (A). A contract worker had apparently lost his balance during regular inspections for the instrumentation devices, with his elbow hitting the switch cover of the pump. This led to the stoppage o

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