fuel rods – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:30:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 fuel rods – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Removing the #Fukushima Spent Fuel Rods. Or not. https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/11/15/removing-the-fukushima-spent-fuel-rods/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/11/15/removing-the-fukushima-spent-fuel-rods/#comments Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:30:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=18123 Continue reading Removing the #Fukushima Spent Fuel Rods. Or not. →]]> TEPCO was going to start removing the fuel rods from the less-damaged reactor building Numnber 4 over the next few days. Today, it was announced that damage to the fuel rod assemblies, some or most of which predated the tsunami and earthquake, this could not be done. There is now uncertainty as to what is going to happen.

Here is a video by Fairewinds about this operation, which I believe was made before TEPCO decided to not continue with the removal at this time:

As you can see, there are several possible problems. Most of these problems are not related to the reasons TEPCO has given to halt the operation at this time; they are additional .

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