Workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant begin removing nuclear fuel from one of the damaged reactors. Fukushima's long, long cleanupWorkers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have finally begun to remove nuclear fuel from one of its damaged reactors, more than eight years after the twin disasters of an earthquake and tsunami. A Tokyo Electric Power Co. worker explains the fuel-removal operation at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Okuma, northeastern Japan, on Monday. An aerial view of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Concerns about the safety of the seas surrounding the damaged plant aren't likely to fade away anytime soon.

Source: CBC News April 15, 2019 18:22 UTC