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TEPCO finds no obstacles to removing fuel rods from Fukushima reactor

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it only took 9 years to photograph, somehow I don’t feel reassured by this article?

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Title is totally misleading, they are talking about one of the reactors, number 2 which did not blow up!

How about the other ones that did blow up and melt through?

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These are the only the spent fuel rods, which are stored in a pool covered by water; this pool is to the side at the top of the reactor building, around the 4-5F level. At some of the power plants, the rods are stored from between 5-20 years, until they cool and are much less radioactive, though a few have been damaged during their manipulation, and can't be easily removed.

As for the melted fuel rods, control assemblies and other materials in the hot, radioactive mass known as the corium, they still are not sure exactly where it is, just somewhere under the damaged reactor pressure vessel on the concrete containment platform.

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Another way to visualize this is three car engines that have blown up and the pistons have melted down into the crank case. Tepco are only discussing here the removal of the car battery from engine number two.

Glad they have a road map, of sorts. All kinds of proverbs come to mind, like ‘Slow and steady wins the race.’

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Hope these rods don’t float when they throw them in the sea.

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Any removal of radioactive material will cause an uptick in radiation levels...

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I pray that operation goes well and nothing goes wrong. we don't need another COVITD -19 on hand, only this time deadlier.

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