Russian expert comments on projected scheme to remove molten fuel from Fukushima reactors

Posted: 22nd October 2022

In their latest annual strategic progress report, experts from Japan’s Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF – part of Tokyo Electric Power Corporation – Tepco) proposed that a massive concrete reservoir should be built and filled with water to completely enclose one of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor buildings.

The water would act as a shield to prevent radiation from escaping into the environment and give engineers more room to work with heavy equipment to dismantle and remove the outer shell of the building. This would then allow specialists to use robots to more thoroughly study the state of the reactor, as well as the fuel that has leaked and accumulated in the basement of the building. Details of plans were reported by the NHK television channel.