Published: October 2nd, 2012 at 1:03 pm ET
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(Subscription Only) Title: TEPCO starts removing fuel from Fukushima Daini reactor
Source: Kyodo
Date: Oct. 2, 2012
[Tepco] showed to the media on Tuesday its work to remove fuel from a nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Daini plant
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The plant operator known as TEPCO plans to remove 764 fuel assemblies inside the No. 4 reactor to the spent fuel pool located next to the reactor. It will also check whether there is damage inside the reactor by using an underwater camera.
The Fukushima Daini complex, located about 12 kilometers south of the Daiichi plant, was affected by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, with three of the four reactors temporarily losing key cooling functions.
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Published: October 2nd, 2012 at 1:03 pm ET
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Everything ok no Problems be happy and lets smile
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Tepgov peeps must be smiling/laughing so much..
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Maybe they act as if they do not know…
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Sounds like Daini has partial meltdowns. Geez
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See "Related posts" for a "no surprise"-feeling… :/
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…Aaaand they're gonna put it in the SFP next to the reactor…
While it is probably safER to place it next to a reactor 'not running', i can't help but wonder if it might not be a better idea to move it to a completely separate (and new if necessary) temporary cooling facilíty, sort of a remote SFP if you will. To get it some distance away from the whole mess, just in case everything suddenly worsens at dainii too.
Just a thought.
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the SPFs in these old BWR type reactors are outside of containment, so its safer if they keep the fuel in the reactor pressure vessel and deep the lids on the primary containment vessel.
the fuel is still much too hot to move to the common fuel pool; it would start to burn and melt a soon as you took it out of the water.
but it wouldnt be a bad idea to have a look-see inside of the rpv, then put the fuel back in and button it up. then they can come back in 20 years and move it to dry casks.
sigh… what a mess.
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thats SFPs…
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