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April 25, 2000 TOKYO, APR 24 (AP) - A nuclear reactor at a research plant northeast of Tokyo shut down automatically Monday after its fuel rods malfunctioned during an output increase, officials said.
The reactor at the state-run nuclear research institute at Oarai, 950 kilometers (590 miles) northeast of Tokyo, shut down while its output was being raised from 500 kilowatts to 3.5 megawatts, according to the Science and Technology Agency.
No radiation leaked outside the facility from the incident, an agency spokesman Akihiro Myoga said. The cause of the malfunctioning was being investigated.
The reactor at Oarai is designed for the study of nuclear fuels and is not for power generation.
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