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Robotic arm begins fuel removal at wrecked Fukushima reactor
Original: A 72-foot robotic arm began squeezing into a wrecked reactor in Japan through a 22-inch opening on Friday, with months of cutting steel out of its path by water jet ahead of it, and the two grabs before it recovered less than a gram of the 880 tons still in the pla
A 72-foot robotic arm has begun working its way into one of Fukushima Daiichi's damaged reactors in Japan through a 22-inch opening, after operators cut away obstructing steel with water jets. The delicate operation is meant to retrieve melted fuel debris, but two earlier attempts recovered less than a gram of the roughly 880 tons still inside the plant, underlining how slow and difficult the cleanup remains more than a decade after the disaster.
Why now: The Fukushima cleanup remains a slow, high-stakes engineering challenge that draws global attention whenever progress, or its lack, is reported.
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