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Fukushima 10 Years On / Removal Of Reactor Core Fuel Debris Remains Biggest Challenge

By David Dalton
5 March 2021

Experts say more information is needed from inside the damaged reactors
Removal Of Reactor Core Fuel Debris Remains Biggest Challenge
A photo taken by a robotic probe provided shows a part of what is believed to be the handle of the fuel rods container and melted fuel in small lumps scattered on a structure below the Fukushima reactor core. Courtesy the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning.
The removal of damaged fuel debris from Units 1, 2 and 3 at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan remains a key task in the decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) process, but “much more detail is needed from inside” the reactor cores, two webinars about the March 2011 accident have been told.

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