TOKYO (AP) — An attempt to use a telescoping robot to remove a sample of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
TOKYO — An attempt to use a telescoping robot to remove a sample of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a technical issue.
The pipes were to be used to push the robot inside and pull it back out when it finished. Once inside the vessel, the robot is operated remotely from a safer location. The sample-return mission is a first crucial step of a decades-long decommissioning at the Fukushima Daiichi. But its goal to bring back less than 3 grams of an estimated 880 tons of fatally radioactive molten fuel underscores the daunting challenges.
The government and TEPCO are sticking to a 30-40-year cleanup target set soon after the meltdown, despite criticism it is unrealistic. No specific plans for the full removal of the melted fuel debris or its storage have been decided.Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.
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