Tokyo Electrical Energy Firm Holdings (Tepco) began extracting a small quantity of radioactive particles from a reactor at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear energy plant on Tuesday — a small however key step in its decommissioning of the ability crippled by a triple meltdown in March 2011.
The removing of even a small quantity of melted nuclear gas has taken Tepco greater than 13 years, which reveals how difficult the duty is.
Tuesday’s trial removing course of follows an earlier try on Aug. 22 that was suspended attributable to technical points. The operation, which started at round 7:20 a.m., was aborted three weeks in the past after it was found that 5 pipes hooked up to the particles retrieval gadget had been put in incorrectly.
