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Fukushima begins fuel rod removal
2013-11-18 09:12:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant begin removing fuel rods from a storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor building.
Some spent fuel rods at Fukushima were damaged before 2011 disaster
2013-11-14 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three of the spent fuel assemblies due to be carefully plucked from the crippled Japanese nuclear plant at Fukushima in a hazardous year-long operation were damaged even before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out the facility. The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, said the damaged assemblies - 4.5 meter high racks containing 50-70 thin rods of highly irradiated used fuel - can't be removed from Fukushima's Reactor No. 4 using the large cask assigned to taking out...
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Fukushima: now for the tough part
2013-11-12 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will as early as this week begin removing 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel in a hugely delicate and unprecedented operation fraught with risk. Carefully plucking more than 1,500 brittle and potentially damaged fuel assemblies from the plant's unstable Reactor No. 4 is expected to take about a year, and will be seen as a test of Tokyo Electric Power Co's ability to move ahead with decommissioning the whole facility - a task likely...
Offshore Wind Farm Near Japan's Fukushima Reactor Goes Live
2013-11-12 20:00:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Japan switched on the first turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Fukushima on Monday, feeding electricity to the grid tethered to the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant onshore. read more
Japan readies additional $30 billion for Fukushima cleanup: sources
2013-11-12 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's government is finalizing plans to borrow an additional 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) to pay for compensating Fukushima evacuees and cleaning up the area outside the wrecked nuclear plant, people with knowledge of the situation say. The additional borrowing would mark both a recognition of the project's mounting costs and the difficulty of hitting the initial targets for reducing radiation levels in the towns and villages hardest hit by fallout from the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl....
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