Another first for Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

NNN0LHI

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Wed Aug-31-11 04:47 PM
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Another first for Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/31_32.html

TEPCO presents plan to extract melted rods

updated at 17:27 UTC, Aug. 31

<snip>The utility plans to then put water in the vessels and take pictures to determine the amount of nuclear fuel that has leaked from the reactors.

In the final stage, the company plans to fill the vessels with water and use robots to extract the rods.

Extraction of fuel rods that have leaked outside of reactors has never been performed at any nuclear plant.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Wed Aug-31-11 04:47 PM
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1. If it works, congrats

but I have no idea what could go wrong... :sarcasm:

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