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RESTRICTIONS: Broadcast: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN Digital: NO USE JAPAN, NO USE TAIWAN
Details about what's happening inside the reactors are largely unknown because it's still too dangerous for humans to go inside, and robots can only provide a partial view of the melted fuel.
Work would focus on removing nuclear fuel and about 900 tons of melted fuel debris, while also disposing of contaminated cooling water and dismantling the four reactors.
RUNDOWN SHOWS:
1. Tsunami sequence, tectonic plate slips upward, big waves formed
2. Power plant before wave, wave hits, flooding after wave passes
3. View of reactor vessel, heats up, explode, water contaminated with isotopes
4. Diagram view of reactor damage, nuclear material dripping down through hole
5. Diagram view of reactor, pipe inserted, robot moves down pipe to core
6. Smaller robot inserted through side wall, drops down via power cable, swims through small holes into damaged reactor core
VOICEOVER (in English):
It's been ten years since Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, and Fox News reports that experts say cleaning up the leaking nuclear reactors will take another 30 years and billions of dollars.
Officials believe that the work could cost the government much more than 76 billion dollars.
This work would focus on removing nuclear fuel and about 900 tons of melted fuel debris, while also disposing of contaminated cooling water and dismantling the four reactors.
Japan has already spent 295 billion dollars on the region's recovery.
Details about what's happening inside the reactors are largely unknown because it's still too dangerous for humans to go inside, and robots can only provide a partial view of the melted fuel.
In 2022, workers plan to test a mechanical arm that will retrieve fuel debris at the bottom of the Unit 2 reactor.
1.24 million tons of contaminated water are circulating through the reactors and will soon fill up the hundreds of giant tanks that hold it — and treatment of this water can only remove certain radioactive elements, but it can't remove the toxic tritium in the water.
SOURCES: Fox News, Deutsche Welle, Science Magazine
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