Uranium & Fuel

Fukushima-Daiichi / Spent Fuel Removal Delayed By Up To Five Years

By David Dalton
8 January 2020

New target is to remove all spent fuel rods by fiscal 2031
Spent Fuel Removal Delayed By Up To Five Years
A file photo of spent fuel removal at Fukushima-Daiichi in 2013.
Japan’s government has delayed the removal of spent fuel from Units 1 and 2 at the six-unit Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station by up to five years, local media report said.The process of removing the spent fuel from the units’ pools had previously been scheduled to begin in fiscal 2023.In its latest decommissioning plan, the government said the station’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, will not begin the two-year process at Unit 1 at least until fiscal 2027 and may wait until fiscal 2028.

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