Proceed with caution: Sato (right) and other Tepco workers in Unit 5’s pedestal at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. — AFP
WORKERS at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes of nuclear debris, 14 years after the facility was hit by a devastating tsunami.
Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has been tasked with finding a suitable place to store around 880 tonnes of radioactive material that remains inside the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s damaged reactors.
