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Fukushima-Daiichi / Tepco To Begin Fuel Removal Demonstration Project

By David Dalton
19 August 2024

Company aiming to retrieve a few grams of debris from Unit 2

Tepco To Begin Fuel Removal Demonstration Project
Three reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi melted down after an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Courtesy IAEA.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) will start a demonstration project as early as Thursday (22 August) to remove a small amount of radioactive fuel debris from reactor number two at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station.

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