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Fukushima melted fuel removal begins 2021, end state unknown Melted fuel removal at Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant begins in 2021, but details on how the complex should look at the end remain unknownJapan’s economy and industry ministry proposed a revision Monday to its decades-long road map to clean up the radioactive mess at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was wrecked by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Nearly nine years after the accident, the decommissioning of the plant, where three reactors melted, remains largely an uncertainty.
The milestone step of debris removal is scheduled to begin at Unit 2 by the end of 2021.
———FUEL RODSTogether, the three melted reactors have more than 1,500 units of mostly used nuclear fuel rods still inside that must be kept cool in pools of water.
TEPCO started removing the fuel rods from the Unit 3 pool in April 2019 and aims to get all 566 removed by March 2021.