en.Wedoany.com Reported - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. announced on June 1 that it will begin retrieving remaining nuclear waste and other materials from the spent fuel pool of Unit 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant as early as June 2. The operation will involve using a remotely operated crane to load materials from a work platform adjacent to the unit into transport containers, which will then be moved to a shared pool within the plant site for cooling.

The pool currently contains 587 spent fuel rods and 28 unused fuel rods, all of which are scheduled to be transferred to the shared pool by the end of fiscal year 2028. The transfer process will begin with the unused fuel rods, followed by the spent fuel rods. Worker training was completed on May 29. A TEPCO representative stated that although a typhoon is approaching, it is not expected to affect the project schedule.

Since nuclear fuel continues to generate heat after power generation, it must be cooled in storage pools. This retrieval aims to move the fuel out of the reactor building, which has high radiation levels and was damaged in the accident, to a centralized location for safer management. Repairs for Units 3 and 4 have been completed, and TEPCO plans to begin repairs on Unit 1 in fiscal year 2015, with the goal of completing all unit repairs by 2019.

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