<story><title>Fukushima: Removal of nuclear fuel rods from damaged reactor building begins</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/fukushima-removal-of-nuclear-fuel-rods-from-damaged-reactor-begins</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>searine</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been following TEPCOs media site casually for years. They actually used to have a really great media site showing the latest work being done on decommissioning but its gotten more and more closed off over the years as people care less and less. They used to post these really cool PDFs with technical detail.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;photo.tepco.co.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;index-e.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;photo.tepco.co.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;index-e.html&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;archive-e.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;archive-e.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, the video referenced in the news article is the first video on the TEPCO archive. Worth a watch, the screenshot really doesn&amp;#x27;t do it justice.&lt;p&gt;They still post media, but it tends to be more PR stuff of complete work rather than ongoing work.&lt;p&gt;Here is another cool video :&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;archive-e.html?video_uuid=vy9uep38&amp;amp;catid=69631&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www4.tepco.co.jp&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;archive-e.html?vide...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A robot inside Unit 2 scrapping up samples of the melted-down core. Talk about cutting edge extreme environment robotics!</text></comment>
<story><title>Fukushima: Removal of nuclear fuel rods from damaged reactor building begins</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/fukushima-removal-of-nuclear-fuel-rods-from-damaged-reactor-begins</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petschge</author><text>Note that this is the fuel from the cooling pool of reactor building #3. The cooling pool of reactor building #4 has already been emptied. And the we are still not ready to remove the heavily damaged fuel from the reactor cores.</text></comment>