TOKYO — Fresh pictures from inside a crippled reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant revealed heavy injury to its basis and vital particles, its operator stated.
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) on Tuesday launched a sequence of video clips from a robotic survey inside Fukushima Daiichi plant’s Reactor 1, certainly one of three that suffered core meltdowns in 2011.
“There were areas that we could not see. But we believe [damage] is spread across large areas,” a TEPCO official advised a briefing.
The video confirmed broken concrete partitions exposing metal rods embedded inside, with particles piled roughly 50 centimeters excessive.
The video illustrated the daunting activity forward to decommission the plant after it was hit by an enormous tsunami triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake.
TEPCO and the federal government count on to spend 30 to 40 years eradicating molten gas from the power and cleansing the realm.
Similar video surveys have been carried out within the two different reactors that went into meltdown.
The new video comes as native residents voice worries concerning the security of the precarious construction in an earthquake-prone area.
Fukushima governor Masao Uchibori pressed TEPCO to conduct an earthquake resistance analysis for the power to make sure the protection of the challenge to dismantle the plant.
“Because of the high radiation levels inside the reactors, I understand that robots that use semiconductors do not function as well as they are designed,” he advised his common press convention on Monday.
“The biggest and most difficult task is the removal of the debris [molten fuel]. We demand TEPCO and the government carry out the decommissioning project safely and steadily.”
TEPCO has stated it’s going to conduct a seismic resistance survey in a number of months, however earlier surveys have indicated that the power stays comparatively secure. — Agence France-Presse
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