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Fukushima / Tepco To Begin Fuel Removal At Second Unit By October 2024

By Rumyana Vakarelska
7 February 2024

Schedule pushed back by several months over ‘complex challenges’

Tepco To Begin Fuel Removal At Second Unit By October 2024
The Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant was heavily battered by a March 2011 tsunami caused by a powerful earthquake, with three of its BWR units suffering fuel meltdowns. Image courtesy IAEA.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has said it will start experimental removal of fuel debris from the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant starting in October 2024 at the latest.

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