December 21, 2014 - Radioactive Fuel Rods Finally Removed from TEPCO Unit 4.
High-resolution aerial photographs of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were taken on March 20 and 24, 2011, by a small unmanned drone flown by Air Photo Service, Niigata prefecture.
After Japan's 9.1 magnitude earthquake and overwhelming tsunami on March 11, 2011, the world saw hydrogen explosions on TV at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Fukushima. The explosion tore through Unit 4 leaving 1,500 radioactive fuel rods on the second story vulnerable to falling. Getting all the radioactive fuel rods out of Unit 4 took four years. Further, scientists caution that meltdowns in Units 1, 2 and 3 probably dripped highly radioactive molten uranium from the metal containment vessels onto the reactor floors and maybe even into the soil below. Tons of radioactive water used to cool the rods in the damaged reactors have been collected in hundreds of tanks, while much has also spilled on the ground and run into the Pacific Ocean. See Japan Today.
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December 21, 2014 - Radioactive Fuel Rods Finally
Removed from TEPCO Unit 4.
High-resolution aerial photographs of the damaged Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant were taken on March 20 and 24, 2011,
by a small unmanned drone flown by Air Photo Service, Niigata prefecture.
After Japan's 9.1 magnitude earthquake and overwhelming tsunami on March 11, 2011, the world saw hydrogen explosions on TV at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Fukushima. The explosion tore through Unit 4 leaving 1,500 radioactive fuel rods on the second story vulnerable to falling. Getting all the radioactive fuel rods out of Unit 4 took four years. Further, scientists caution that meltdowns in Units 1, 2 and 3 probably dripped highly radioactive molten uranium from the metal containment vessels onto the reactor floors and maybe even into the soil below. Tons of radioactive water used to cool the rods in the damaged reactors have been collected in hundreds of tanks, while much has also spilled on the ground and run into the Pacific Ocean. See Japan Today.