Assemblies from a second reactor placed in a specially designed steel cask by remote-controlled cranes for transfer to the ground
The Fukushima nuclear reactor after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Picture: REUTERS
The reactor was one of three reactors at Fukushima that suffered meltdowns after a 2011 earthquake and tsunami shut down the plant’s cooling systems. Tepco must pluck the brittle and potentially damaged assemblies from a flooded compartment on the reactor site that is 18m above ground level and place them in containment casks, raise the casks from the pool and place them on a truck on the ground to transport them to a final pool of water for storage.
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