until 2011, few people had heard of the fukushima eui kyung shin nuclear plant in north—east japan.hen, the largest earthquake in japanese history japan. then, the largest earthquake injapanese history changed everything. the resulting tsunami killed more than 20,000 people. and the 14 killed more than 20,000 people. and the 1a metre wave overwhelmed fukushima's flood defences. ironically, it was the power station's cooling system that was flooded and when it shut down, the radioactive fuel rods began to overheat and not down. they reacted with the steam around them, filling units one, two, three and four with hydrogen gas which then exploded. 6.5 years on, the melted radio fuel remains somewhere inside these buildings. humans can't go anywhere near that fuel and so robots are being used first to try and find it and eventually to remove it. and today we have been given rare access today we have been given rare access to the site to help us understand just how hard the job is. translation: you have to work out how to decommission the reactor and remove the fuel, we have to survey the