Tokyo Electric completes nuclear fuel removal from Fukushima No. 3 unit

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Sunday it has completed removal of all 566 nuclear fuel assemblies from the storage pool of the No. 3 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where a decades-long process to scrap the complex continues.The No. 3 unit is one of the three reactors that suffered core meltdowns following the earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011. There still are 1,007 fuel assemblies stored in the pools in the heavily damaged No. 1 and No. 2 reactor buildings.Of the plant's six reactors, the company known as TEPCO finished ret…READ FULL ARTICLE