Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plan. Photo: AFP Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plan. Photo: AFP
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plan. Photo: AFP
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Nuclear fuel removed from crippled Japan Fukushima plant

  • It is the first time the power company that owns the plant has pulled out fuel from inside a highly contaminated building containing the melted-down reactor

Topic |   Japan
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 12:55pm, 15 Apr, 2019

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plan. Photo: AFP Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plan. Photo: AFP
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plan. Photo: AFP
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