TEPCO requires more nuclear fuel debris from Fukushima plant
Posted: 1st December 2024
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 29, 2024 at 14:33 JST
The tip of a crane device, equipped with two cameras and a gripper, used to collect melted nuclear fuel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant (Takuya Tanabe)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will need to retrieve additional melted nuclear fuel from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant because the sample obtained earlier this month was too small for a sufficient analysis.
TEPCO on Nov. 28 announced plans for a second operation to collect radioactive debris from the plant’s No. 2 reactor.
The decision follows the company’s extraction of 0.7 gram of fuel debris on Nov. 7. It was the first fuel sample retrieved since the triple meltdown caused by by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011.