Melted fuel removal from crippled Fukushima reactor to be delayed

The process to remove melted fuel from one of the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, initially planned to start in 2021, will be delayed by at least a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Thursday.The spread of the virus has stalled the development in Britain of a robotic arm to be used for the removal of the fuel from the No. 2 reactor, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said.Removal of the fuel debris is seen as the most difficult part of a decades-long process to decommission the Fukushima nuclear complex, which suffered core meltdowns…READ FULL ARTICLE