Fukushima: now for the tough part

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Fukushima: now for the tough part

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fukushima-now-tough-part-210149844--business.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/23JtLeeBRb2rGmNWN3Upkg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-12T211021Z_1_CBRE9AB1MTE00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-JAPAN-FUKUSHIMA-REMOVAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Kyodo file photo shows crane units installed over the spent fuel pool inside the No.4 reactor building at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant" align="left" title="Kyodo file photo shows crane units installed over the spent fuel pool inside the No.4 reactor building at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant" border="0" /></a>By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will as early as this week begin removing 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel in a hugely delicate and unprecedented operation fraught with risk. Carefully plucking more than 1,500 brittle and potentially damaged fuel assemblies from the plant's unstable Reactor No. 4 is expected to take about a year, and will be seen as a test of Tokyo Electric Power Co's ability to move ahead with decommissioning the whole facility - a task likely to take decades and cost tens of billions of dollars.</p><br clear="all"/>

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