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Bennyboy

(10,440 posts)
28. Yet the Japan Times, today, says
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 01:34 PM
Nov 2013

that they are going ahead with fuel removal on Monday....

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it will start removing nuclear fuel from the spent fuel pool of the reactor 4 building at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant from Monday.

“Full-scale removal (from the accident-stricken unit) is a very important process in moving ahead with the plant’s decommissioning,” Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono told a press conference, adding that the experience will be useful in dealing with the three other units that were damaged in the 2011 nuclear crisis.

The unit 4 spent fuel pool contains 1,331 spent fuel assemblies and 202 unused ones. Workers will begin with the removal of unused fuel assemblies, which are easier to handle.

The work Monday will begin with the placement of a transportation container inside the spent fuel pool. Workers will then use a crane to take each fuel assembly out of the storage rack and put it into the container.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/15/national/tepco-to-start-fuel-removal-from-fukushima-reactor-4-pool-monday/#at_pco=tcb-1.0&at_tot=8&at_ab=-&at_pos=0

This should go well. TexasTowelie Nov 2013 #1
Hmm. Hissyspit Nov 2013 #2
It sure has been a nice ride. Wish it wasn't going to get much, much worse. silvershadow Nov 2013 #3
It is going to get much, much worse, isn't it. Ghost Dog Nov 2013 #10
... brer cat Nov 2013 #12
I'm in Tokyo, too, right now Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #72
Clean, safe, abundant. WowSeriously Nov 2013 #4
Yeah, right! nt valerief Nov 2013 #13
Or perhaps I was refering to solar power. WowSeriously Nov 2013 #19
When Hell freezes over. Billionaires must become trillionaires, after all, the planet be damned! nt valerief Nov 2013 #25
even some on here heaven05 Nov 2013 #15
Or perhaps I was referring to wave power WowSeriously Nov 2013 #21
Well, to be fair . . . ChairmanAgnostic Nov 2013 #23
I think our new member hasn't learned the :sarcasm: tag yet groundloop Nov 2013 #17
Wow! Seriously? My comment actually required WowSeriously Nov 2013 #18
I got it w/out the tag, and welcome to DU. Divernan Nov 2013 #20
I suspected as much! WowSeriously Nov 2013 #22
Oh, yeah, it totally did. nilram Nov 2013 #30
And don't forget, too cheap to meter. nilram Nov 2013 #31
I recall another DU poster amending that statement to: WowSeriously Nov 2013 #36
Who's running this? Satan? End timers? FFS, fix and or bury the accursed thing. It's not theirs now. freshwest Nov 2013 #5
Not sure that bury is even an option any longer - and the water supply for 40 million jtuck004 Nov 2013 #6
Why are there so many things unknown when it is has been over two years? The Stranger Nov 2013 #24
The nuke industry has been trying to figure out what to do with nuke waste for 60 years... Tikki Nov 2013 #29
It is so hot and mangled there is no protection that allows for it. Workers are jtuck004 Nov 2013 #32
Is there an official announcement of the delay? bananas Nov 2013 #7
Perhaps TEPCO's still trying to figure out how to spin this. Divernan Nov 2013 #8
Its much worse than you think. The contaimated water thats flowing into the ocean is being Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #9
cf. Ghost Dog Nov 2013 #39
The amount of water is irrelevant. FBaggins Nov 2013 #43
I wonder when the exodus of our West Coastlines begins PuraVidaDreamin Nov 2013 #11
Why would the fishing industry be hurt? It's not like we have controls in place valerief Nov 2013 #14
The crane operators who'll be lifting the rods out won't be wasting the downtime JohnyCanuck Nov 2013 #16
Someone educatd on this issue please explain something to me. The Stranger Nov 2013 #26
Since no one answered you Stranger, here are a couple of links that answer your question Hestia Nov 2013 #37
Problems in the fuel pool RobertEarl Nov 2013 #38
Nope (yet again) FBaggins Nov 2013 #40
You doing ok, baggins? RobertEarl Nov 2013 #47
How's that fantasy world treating you RE? FBaggins Nov 2013 #48
Read ENEnews.com RobertEarl Nov 2013 #50
Why waste time with a woo site? FBaggins Nov 2013 #52
Your answers. FBaggins Nov 2013 #44
Then why all the hubbub, bub? The Stranger Nov 2013 #45
There isn't all that much "hubbub" FBaggins Nov 2013 #49
Okay, so just to make sure. The Stranger Nov 2013 #55
Yep FBaggins Nov 2013 #59
Meanwhile, gamma-eating Green Slime thriving & multiplying inside Chernobyl Berlum Nov 2013 #27
Yet the Japan Times, today, says Bennyboy Nov 2013 #28
Yep, operation starts Monday... Bennyboy Nov 2013 #33
The horrific effects of this nuclear disaster in Japan will, by far, surpass the destruction caused Lodestar Nov 2013 #34
Not a chance. FBaggins Nov 2013 #41
Total BS is what your expounding Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #42
Reality is sometimes messy, but it does provide truth ... MindMover Nov 2013 #53
I really appreciate your demeanor of reality ... MindMover Nov 2013 #54
Eh, MM? RobertEarl Nov 2013 #56
So you have links to how many people have been killed by Fukushima ... I do ... MindMover Nov 2013 #57
You do, what? RobertEarl Nov 2013 #58
You really just keep making stuff up, eh? FBaggins Nov 2013 #60
Why do you keep doing this? RobertEarl Nov 2013 #62
Because you remain "invicibly ignorant" FBaggins Nov 2013 #63
Hey RobertEarl Nov 2013 #64
No global impact? Bullshit RobertEarl Nov 2013 #66
Still putting words in others' mouths? FBaggins Nov 2013 #67
Bwahaha RobertEarl Nov 2013 #68
Lol... "looks like #4 to you"??? FBaggins Nov 2013 #69
Now you need to build strawmen, eh? FBaggins Nov 2013 #61
Trust me, only people who are lucky enough to not really feel the pain of the 20,000 dead... Bonobo Nov 2013 #65
It is depressing locks Nov 2013 #35
Oh fuck. Myrina Nov 2013 #46
THey are scared to death of the whole project. Paper Roses Nov 2013 #51
TEPCO completes Fukushima's reactor 4 fuel rods transfer ramakrishna Nov 2013 #70
4 down, 1,496 to go. Octafish Nov 2013 #71
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