TEPCO begins repairs on Japan plant

TOKYO - Workers at Japan's crippled nuclear plant began putting up equipment on Tuesday to allow the start of repairs to its cooling systems, key to bringing reactors under control after they were badly damaged in the March 11 quake and tsunami.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has said it may take six to nine months to bring the nuclear plant back under control.

The plant operator has sent in a pair of US-made crawler PackBot robots to examine inside the reactors where radiation left by explosions is too high for humans to enter.