It was a significant step in the decommissioning efforts, but workers still have three heavily crippled reactors to clean up after they were sent into meltdown in the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. The overall cleanup work of the Fukushima plant is expected to take decades.
A total of 1,535 fuel rod assemblies have been now taken out of the building after Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s (TEPCO’s) yearlong operation, a company spokesman said.
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