The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Friday that a long telescopic probe successfully captured images of what is most likely melted fuel inside one of its three damaged reactors, providing limited but crucial information for its cleanup. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the fishing rod
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Friday that a long telescopic probe successfully captured images of what is most likely melted fuel inside one of its three damaged reactors, providing limited but crucial information for its cleanup.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the fishing rod-like device carrying a camera went deep into the plant’s No. 2 reactor primary containment vessel. The images indicated that at least part of the fuel had breached the core, falling to the vessel’s floor, TEPCO spokesman Takahiro Kimoto said.
„There is so much that we still haven’t seen,“ Kimoto told reporters. „But we were able to obtain important information that we need in order to determine the right method for removing the melted fuel debris.“
A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 caused three reactors at the Fukushima plant to melt.
