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"It's
a slow process that will take more than a year, and there are still
three other reactors to go," he says. TEPCO plans to remove unused fuel
rods first and then the spent fuel. According to , 1,331 spent rods and
202 unused rods will be removed when the operation is complete. "People
move these fuel bundles around all the time during normal operations at a
nuclear power plant," says Brumfiel. "But this is not a normal
situation — this is a plant that's been heavily damaged. There's also a
fear that one of these casks might get dropped, say during an
earthquake." http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/18/245993401/first-fuel-rods-plucked-from-tsunami-damaged-fukushima-plant
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake 370 kilometres east off Fukushima sent
tremors through parts of Japan and caused a small tsunami but initial
reports indicate no damage. According to Reuters, the wrecked Fukushima
nuclear plant was undamaged by the earthquake early on Saturday, October
26.
The following footage is from a livecam monitoring the Fukushima nuclear
plant and appears to be shaking from about 1.40 into the clip.
Credit: YouTube/Tokyo Electric Power Company
