it's tokyo electric is basically saying trust us we have no bases trust tokyo electric i think the japanese government is not telling its people the truth and what it really boils down to is that they're measuring the radiation with these radiation detectors in the air but they're not registering what these people are breathing in and the inhalation dose from the dust that's on the ground is not included in the japanese calculations so it's critical for these people to stay away stay away from these areas and so. on its way home russia's soyuz rocket with a two thousand and fourteen olympic torch aboard has successfully undocked from the international space station these are the latest pictures from the capsule as it heads towards earth earlier this week the symbol of the sochi winter olympics traveled to assess for historic first two russian cosmonauts she took the torch on its very first space walk saturday while outside the station the pair saved the moment for posterity by taking pictures with her helmet cams despite the torch having traveled to space twice before it once in one thousan

moving in and there's not a lot of faith in this world for the competency of tokyo electric there's no international oversight there and that's the problem it's tokyo electric is basically saying trust us when we have no bases to trust tokyo electric i think the japanese government is not telling its people the truth and what it really boils down to is that they're measuring the radiation with these radiation detectors in the air but they're not registering what these people are breathing in and the inhalation dose from the dust that's on the ground is not included in the japanese calculations so it's critical for these people to stay away stay away from these areas for as i'm concerned. russians are fond of saying everything is possible in russia apparently the same applies in neighboring belarus where one motorist in the country got a real demonstration of horse power when he tried to cross this is easy intersection . good news for dash cameras you never know what's going to happen i would on the streets there plus. not exactly a royal welcome as the dutch king is pelted with rott

no international oversight there and that's the problem it's tokyo is electric it's basically saying trust us when we have no bases to trust tokyo electric i think the japanese government is not telling its people the troops and what it really boils down to is that they're measuring the radiation with these radiation detectors in the air but they're not registering what these people are breathing in and the inhalation dose from the dust that's on the ground is not included in the japanese calculations so it's critical for these people to stay away stay away from these areas for as i'm concerned. on its way home russia's soyuz rocket with the two thousand and fourteen olympic torch aboard successfully undocked from the international space station these are the latest pictures from the capsule as are rockets towards earth earlier this week the symbol of the sochi winter games travel to the i assess for historic first two russian cosmonauts took the torch on its first spacewalk saturday and while outside the station the pair saved the moment for posterity by taking pictures with their h

are too severe so it has to be moved they get them the problem will be that we've got tokyo electric moving it and there's not a lot of faith in this world for the tom put in city of tokyo electric there's no international oversight there and that's the problem it's tokyo is electric it's basically saying trust us when we have no bases trust tokyo electric i think the japanese government is not telling its people the troops and what it really boils down to is that they're measuring the radiation with these radiation detectors in the air but they're not registering what these people are breathing in and the inhalation dose from the dust that's on the ground is not included in the japanese calculations so it's critical for these people to stay away stay away from these areas for as i'm concerned. the surge of violence in iraq has made this year the deadliest since two thousand and eight scores of continually being killed in attacks on crowded areas schools mosques the country's witness more than one hundred thousand violent civilian deaths since the start of the u.s. led invasion back

. >>> the head of tokyo electric power company says the utility is preparing a new report on the crisis at the crippled fukushima plant. the announcement comes as the company tries to gain understanding to start react tors in central japan. tepco managers released their first report on the disaster in june of last year. the evaluation was based on the company's own investigations. but many questions were left unanswered. tepco president says the company is preparing another report. he told the lower house body that the new study includes nuclear power experts from the united states and britain and the report will be released soon. a technical team is examining the safety structures of the niigata plant. where the utility hopes to restart two reactors. tepco management decided a further probe into the nuclear accident in fukushima was needed to gain the prefecture's approval. a copy of the report will be given to niigata officials for review. >>> workers at fukushima daiichi have been battling problem after problem. they have been battling leaks and struggling to build storage tanks for

tokyo electric power company operates the plant. a manager says the workers are ready to begin. >> translator: the same operation has been conducted more than 1,200 times at nuclear plants, including other facilities. we're not trying anything new. experienced workers will do what they have been doing for years. but we will certainly take the utmost care as we proceed. >> reporter: but the current work is very different from previous removal efforts, because a crippled reactors are highly radioactive. he says tepco must take added precautions. >> translator: this time they have to wear gloves and overalls. we have to consider how this might impact work efficiency. but the workers have done plenty of training, and they are experienced. >> reporter: there are other potential risks. the team must lift each container of fuel rods about 30 meters off the ground to get it out of the pool. engineers at tepco have conducted computer simulations to see what would happen if a container fell. >> translator: we've doubled the wires on the crane

it may take part of the plan bidding for plants that tokyo electric power company wants to build. >>> japanese jeans giant edwin is taking creative steps to revive its flagging finances. bosses have filed to use an out of court legal recourse to meet with creditors. edwin officials have been talking with financial institutions on ways to turn around their business. the jeans maker posed losses of more than $540 million over the past five years. its debt exceeds assets to the tune of $95 million. lawyers selected by a third party can mediate between a debt-ridden company and its banks. edwin officials will also look for sponsors to support the firm's rehabilitations. they are assuring clients and consumers edwin will continue business as usual. >>> honda motor is building its second plant in brazil. the car makers' officials want to double production capacity in the country. honda officials attended a ground breaking city about 200 kilometers from sao paulo. they are spending about $430 million on the factory, it will be equipped to produce 120 compact cars a year. the new plant will b

tokyo electric power company has been shoring up unit four but you know our basic concern is that tokyo electric power company is now a symbol for corruption cronyism you know misrepresentation. falsified reports got busted for having the japanese mafia supply them with workers this is the same company that when they built fukushima daiichi they leveled the construction site by they they took the construction site down eighty feet they literally removed the natural tsunami barrier that was there at the site in order to provide easier access quicker access for machinery to build the fukushima plant as well as to cut costs for pumping cooling water so this whole fukushima site was essentially leveling the natural. tsunami wall and they did it on bogus predictions that the highest tsunami that would be predicted there was for ten feet and you know on march eleventh we saw a tsunami that was forty five to fifty feet but you know it was a construct that essentially set in motion a history of false for cation including safety reports this is the same company that also falls got caught falsify

. >> translator: the previous government led by the democratic party chose to have tokyo electric power company respond to the accident on its own. even though the government could have taken charge of some of the work. it's high time to review the policy for recovery efforts. >> a task force from the main governing liberal democratic party came up with a set of proposals last week. it suggests that after current decontamination plans are carried out, the government could finance further cleanup efforts through a public works project. the task force is also calling for a greater government role in decommissioning damaged reactors, providing facilities for storing contaminated soil, and addressing the problem of tainted water leaks. >>> engineers at japan's damaged nuclear plant spend hours every day trying to get a complex network of pipes, cylinders and filters to work. the advance liquid processing system, a.l.p.s., is designed to remove most radioactive substances from contaminated water at fukushima daiichi. the government is spend $150 million to upgrade the system. we look at how

it's absurd that tokyo electric is in charge of the globally significant extraction of the fuel from the pool if something goes wrong this could be a global catastrophe that dwarfs what has happened at fukushima daiichi thus far tokyo electric has shown its true colors time and time again it's incompetence it's dishonesty even the director of the nuclear regulation authority of japan has warned that this process should not be rushed they should not try to force these assemblies out of their storage channels there is no radiological containment around the pool and if this waste were to catch on fire it could be ten times worse than chernobyl tokyo the metropolitan area is thirty million residents and they might have to be evacuated if that waste catches on fire so that that zone could become a dead zone for all time it already is and the evacuation zone should be much larger than twelve point four miles in radius even now. to help you understand what is going on we've got detailed illustrations and an explanation of the fuel rods removal process and r.t. dot com together with the poss

and it's absurd that tokyo electric is in charge of this globally significant extraction of the fuel from the pool if something goes wrong this could be a global catastrophe that dwarfs what has happened at fukushima daiichi thus far tokyo electric has shown its true colors time and time again its incompetence its dishonesty even the director of the nuclear regulation authority of japan has warned that this process should not be rushed they should not try to force these assemblies out of their storage channels there is no radiological containment around the pool and if this waste were to catch on fire it could be ten times worse than chernobyl tokyo the metropolitan area is thirty million residents and they might have to be evacuated if that waste catches on fire so that that zone could become a dead zone for all time it already is and the evacuation zone should mean much larger than twelve point four miles in radius even now. straight to athens to open up the ante world update where thousands of people marched through greece's a second largest city of thessalonica at a protest again

move on the part of the japanese government and tokyo electric power company well we've seen a series of these sort of failed promises or. statements that weren't true whether it was the radiation levels afterward just how precarious the situation is they're there. diverting a lot of money now to the sort of decommissioning process at the plant and what needs to be done there to declare this crisis over to the plant to be fully decommissioned and i guess they're giving a time scale of thirty years before that he had all this done what do they still need to do well you know i think first of all we have to address the. cleanup operation is really a misnomer when you're talking about a nuclear accident it's about trans contamination of all that radioactivity to somewhere else so a decommissioning operation and we are seeing figures according to a former in our c chairman gregory yes co five hundred billion dollars as a bottom line figure for the clean up this so-called clean up operation in decommissioning i mean really what are you going to do with all that nuclear waste once you get it

tokyo electric has shown its true colors time and time again its incompetence its dishonesty even the director of the nuclear regulation authority of japan has more and that this process should not be rushed. they should not try to force these assemblies out of their storage channels. there is no radiological container around the pool and if this waste were to catch on fire. it could be ten times worse than chernobyl. tokyo metropolitan area is thirty million residents and they might have to be evacuated if that waste catches on fire. so that that's known could become a dead zone for all time minority is an evacuation zone should be much larger than twelve point four miles in radius. even now the respondent as a chs he's keeping a close on the line to clean up into pushing up and posing questions to the company in charge of the prices going up to the minute reports on the operation by taking his twitter account. the line of virtual currency that can be held but can be still and we've got the story of the coin bank heist that has led police in the dark over who's actually behind the ro

for the competency of tokyo electric just really quickly the cleanup team says pulling out the fuelrods is a very important step just clarify for me again why is it so important to get them out of it not leave them where they are to most safe place them well there's more radioactivity in that pool then all of the bombs that were ever hired in above ground testing so we have the equivalent of seven hundred nuclear bombs were material in the fuel pool and they're like cigarettes crushed in a cigarette you know in the pack it's not priced. ripples out easily but these are not going to pull out easily and the fear is that they might release the radiation that's inside them. the trunk about united for a of a full recap of the next day or two i was going to send the nuclear experts thank you. think you've been with us too coming up much space explore merican paradox off the brake with growth has become simply too expensive to sustain. illegal immigration is a hot topic and everyone always says that immigrants do the work that no one wants to do well let me explain why that is i want to ku

process of removing fuel rods correctly the consequences could be disastrous it's absurd that tokyo electric is in charge of this globally significant extraction of the fuel from the pool if something goes wrong this could be a global catastrophe that dwarfs what has happened at fukushima daiichi thus far tokyo electric has shown its true colors time and time again its incompetence its dishonesty even the director of the nuclear regulation authority of japan has warned that this process should not be rushed they should not try to force these assemblies out of their storage channels there is no radiological containment around the pool and if this waste were to catch on fire it could be ten times worse than chernobyl tokyo the metropolitan area is thirty million residents and they might have to be evacuated if that waste catches on fire so that that zone could become a dead zone for all time it already is and the evacuation zone should be much larger than twelve point four miles in radius even now and to help you understand what we're talking about we've got detailed illustrations and an expla

officials at the industry ministry have taken steps to turn tokyo electric power company into a holding company. they want the officials to review how the company is organized and they hope to split it up and create one company for the decommissioning operation and others for nuclear power generation, thermal power generation and transmission. the ministry officials believe that would make it easier to manage the work at the nuclear plant and deal with the reactors. tepco executives say forming a holding company would allow them to better manage each unit and make it easier for them to cut costs. >>> an international monitoring organization says the syrian government no longer has the capacity to manufacture chemical agents for use in weapons. officials of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons say the government has destroyed all of its production facilities. >> the syrian government has completed what we call the functional destruction of its entire chemical weapons-making apparatus and what are mixing/filling equipment for use in sarin gas. >> officials say syria's

tokyo electric power company workers have to remove the more than 1500 fuel rod assemblies from the reactor 4 building. the rods are currently stored in a pool. most of them are used, extremely hot and highly radioactive. the march 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered a hydrogen explosion that damaged the reactor 4 building. workers will use a crane attached to a specially built structure to remove the rods. tepco officials say it will take more than a year to complete the operation. the workers will then have to remove fuel rods from three other reactor buildings. residents of fukushima have mixed feelings about the fuel rod removal. the project is a positive step in decommissioning the process, but it could also put local people at risk. a 64-year-old man who operates a dry cleaning business near the plant welcomes the move. >> translator: this is the first step in the decommissioning process. people here have high hopes that things will slowly return to normal and we can go back to our old lives. >> but some locals are expressing concern over possible safety problems with the delicate r

tokyo electric and power or tepco is and they are a for profit company. >> they don't want to take therong point to save the money. >> he came to america to shine the light on what he feels is a flawed approach. >> clean up job is too large for their capability. >> he is one of the many experts who says this is a bad solution and a melt down is still possible. the professor of clinical family medicine at ucla. >> it is like the fox overseeing the chicken coup and that's a huge problem. >> they refused international help. that's unwise. >> it is the biggest ticking time bomb in history. the damaged plant is in no condition to withstand 509 -- another earthquake or tsunami. this was what happened when the first sea wall struck. it was shattered. as we know provided little protection. the tsunami flooded the plant and cutoff the power and the melt down was on the way. the defenses today are far less. just last week one of canada's top environmental scientists described what would happen if a massive quake did hit today. >> everybody on the west coast of north america should evacuate. if t

managers of tokyo electric power company have been preparing to start the job for the last 2 1/2 years. they plan to lift the rods out with a crane. but the building was too weak to support it. so workers built a steel frame. they will transfer the rods to containers that can seal in radiation. they will then move these two a facility within the compound and put them back into water. the job is far from straightforward. the workers have to maneuver the rods under water to prevent any radiation from escaping. and they will have to cope with high levels of radiation, up to 200 microsieverts per hour. >> translator: the working environment here is more difficult and stressful than usual. therefore, i want to devote every effort to safely transfer all the fuel rods. >> reporter: tepco officials say it will take more than a year to remove all the rods from reactor number 4. then they will have to do it all over again at the three other reactors. they haven't said when they expect to finish. the operation is due to start this month. it's the latest hurdle in the long process of decommissioni

officials from the japanese government and tokyo electric power company have been discussing ways to weather proof the plant. they are hoping to contain leaks of radioactive water. senior vice industry minister kazio akaba discussed the problem with tepco officials. they decided to attach rain pipes to the tanks that stored contaminated water. they hope to finish the job by the end of march. they also agree to double the height of all the barriers around the tanks to 60 centimeters. they hope to finish that up before the end of this year. >>> many japanese soccer players have joined teams elsewhere in asia, and some would like to stay on after their days on the pitch are over and pass on what they know to local players. a new training program will help retired players achieve their dream. officials from the japan football association kicked off the eight-day program in singapore on monday. six japanese players signed up. they play for teams in singapore and thailand. the first day of the course focused on training young players between the ages of 9 and 12. the instructor encouraged

tokyo electric and power or tepco is and they are a for profit company. >> they don't want to take the wrong point to save the money. >> he came to america to shine the light on what he feels is a flawed approach. >> clean up job is too large for their capability. >> he is one of the many experts who says this is a bad solution and a melt down is still possible. the professor of clinical family medicine at ucla. >> it is like the fox overseeing the chicken coup and that's a huge problem. >> they refused international help. that's unwise. >> it is the biggest ticking time bomb in history. the damaged plant is in no condition to withstand 509 -- another earthquake or tsunami. this was what happened when the first sea wall struck. it was shattered. as we know provided little protection. the tsunami flooded the plant and cutoff the power and the melt down was on the way. the defenses today are far less. just last week one of canada's top environmental scientists described what would happen if a massive quake did hit today. >> everybody on the west coast of north america should evacuate. if

officials at japan's industry ministry have taken steps to turn tokyo electric power company into a holding company. they want to separate the operations and create units to deal with specific areas of work. ministry officials want tepco executives to review how their company is organized. then they hope to split it up. they want to create one company for the decommissioning operation and others for nuclear power generation, thermal power generation and transmission. the ministry officials believe that would make it easier to manage the work at the nuclear plant and deal with the reactors. they also say forming a holding company would allow tepco to better manage each unit and make it easier for them to cut costs. >>> diplomats from japan and china have seen some tough times in relations between their countries. japan nationalized the senkaku islands a year ago but china claims the islands in the east china sea. experts from both countries are trying to make some inroads. nhk world reports from beijing. >> reporter: experts on japan/china relations met in beijing several days ago. they want

tokyo electric power company is in charge of the plant. company officials say the storage facility is much safer than the damaged reactor building. they say it can withstand an earthquake as strong as the one in march 2011. the workers' next task is to transfer the fuel assemblies from the container to a pool. then they'll begin moving the next batch of fuel. more than 1,500 fuel assemblies remain inside the damaged reactor building. most of them contain spent fuel that's highly radioactive. >>> roadside hill in northern japan collapsed on thursday burying five construction workers. one has been confirmed dead. the accident happened in yurihonjo city. police say four men and one woman were buried in the landslide. they were repairing the hillside when it began to collapse. prefectural officials say 40 meters high and 30 meters wide came down on the workers and their machinery. it has been raining on and off since sunday in the area. city officials say they outsourced the repair work after cracks were found in the hillside in november of la

it's the first and tokyo electric power company will take port de commissioning the crippled plan. that said i know that there were nine months that we decided to start removing fuel on november eighteen eight when he sucks is that you typically christmas the building contains more than fifteen hundred units of fuel rods. most of them are used and highly radioactive the fuel is stored in a pool of water which contains the radioactive particles to coworkers will remove it and place it in the radiation proof containers. till then transfer them to another location on the plants premises. the building was badly damaged by a hydrogen explosion in march two thousand and eleven. so engineers built a steel structure is equipped with a crane there will be used to remove the containers they see the structure can resist earthquakes as strong as the one on march eleven to go officials will start with the unused fuel as they consider a less difficult to handle. the plan to remove the remainder by the end of two thousand and fourteen the next step will be to remove fuel from the other three reac

it's the first step tokyo electric power company will take toward decommissioning the crippled plant. >> translator: we decided to start removing fall on november 18th. >> the building contains more than 1,500 units of fuel rods. most of them are used and highly radioactive. the fuel is stored in a pool of water which contains the radioactive particles. tepco workers will remove it and place it in radiation-proof containers. they'll then transfer them to another location on the plant's premises. the building was badly damaged by a hydrogen explosion in march 2011. so engineers built a steel structure equipped with a crane that will be used to remove the containers. they say the structure can resist earthquakes as strong as the one on march 11th. tepco officials will start with the unused fuel as they consider it less difficult to handle. they plan to remove the remainder by the end of 2014. the next step will be to remove fuel from the other three reactor buildings. >>> as workers proceed with the decommissioning of the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, they're faced with a famil

and officials with tokyo electric power company say some of the rods are damaged. workers launched the operation on monday in the building housing reactor number 4. they lifted four assemblies of unused fuel rods and moved them into a container. the accident at the plant two years ago left fragments of debris in the pool where the rods have been stored. the murky water forced workers to install underwater cameras so they could monitor what they were doing. they had to make sure the debris didn't do any damage. so they could only move the assemblies at a speed of one centimeter per second. the task took them more than three hours. the crews are planning to remove the fuel rods from all four reactors. more than 3,100 assemblies in all. tepco officials say 80 of those assemblies are damaged, most of them in the building housing reactor number 1. they say the units were damaged before the accident, but they don't know how. they say holes and cracks in them could cause radioactive particles to leak out and delay the process. tepco engineers are putting together speciall

tokyo electric and power or tepco is and they are a for profit company. >> they don't want to take thent to save the money. >> he came to america to shine the light on what he feels is a flawed approach. >> clean up job is too large for their capability. >> he is one of the many experts who says this is a bad solution and a melt down is still possible. the professor of clinical family medicine at ucla. >> it is like the fox overseeing the chicken coup and that's a huge problem. >> they refused international help. that's unwise. >> it is the biggest ticking time bomb in history. the damaged plant is in no condition to withstand 509 -- another earthquake or tsunami. this was what happened when the first sea wall struck. it was shattered. as we know provided little protection. the tsunami flooded the plant and cutoff the power and the melt down was on the way. the defenses today are far less. just last week one of canada's top environmental scientists described what would happen if a massive quake did hit today. >> everybody on the west coast of north america should evacuate. if that is n

the next step is to trust were the containers to essay for a storage facility at the plant tokyo electric power company operates the plant amanda says. the walker is now ready to begin. you'll have to look at the same operation has been conducted more than one thousand two hundred times at nuclear plants including other facilities. we're not trying anything new experience workers will do what they have been doing for years. we will certainly take the utmost care. as we proceed. but the current work is very different from previous removal airports because the crippled reactors are high in the radioactive. mostly he says. go must take that as a cushion. this time we have to wear gloves and over rolls and when we have to consider how this might impact work efficiency. the workers have done plenty of training. and their experience. i messed up there are other potential risks. the team must lift its container of fuel rods. about thirty meters off the ground uk out of the pool engineers have to go ahead infected computer simulations to see what would happen if the current nfl. clean the teeth a

carried the container about one hundred meters to another building where the fuel will be stored tokyo electric power company is in charge of the plant company officials say the storage facility is much safer than the damaged reactor building. they say he can withstand an earthquake as strong as the one in march two thousand and eleven the workers next task is to transfer the fuel assemblies from the container to a pool then they'll begin moving the next batch of fuel more than fifteen hundred fuel assemblies remain inside the damaged reactor building most of them contained spent fuel. that's highly radioactive. present the plan are also making progress in their efforts to deal with the growing amount of radioactive water on site they're testing a decontamination system workers wanted to start using the advanced liquid processing system or alps this year. it is designed to remove sixty two kinds of radioactive substances excluding tritium that they suspended a test run in june after they discovered erosion of a tank allowed on the process water to escape can fix the problem and we started tests

tokyo electric power company executives haven't officially ruled out using reactors 5 and 6 to generate electricity in the future. now they say they'll decide what to do with the units after they speak with authorities in fukushima prefecture and in the towns that host the plant. their official decision could come next month. prime minister shinzo abe has urged them to scrap the reactors. he says they should concentrate on dealing with a series of problems including leaks of radioactive water. tepco officials plan to use the two reactors to train workers involved in decommissioning the four damaged units. the utility is already organizing funding for decommissioning reactors 5 and 6. but it's expected to fall short by more than $250 million. if the decision is made during the current fiscal year next march. tepco is allowed to raise power rates to make up the difference. >>> workers at fukushima daiichi are on day three of an operation that's essential to decommissioning the plant. they're removing nuclear fuel from a storage pool in the reactor 4 building. the workers used a crane to l

monitors of tokyo electric co a company have been recovering to start the job for the last two in a house two years. you climb to live the rocks out with the quaint. the building was too weak to support it the walkers to us to pray they would charge for the wrongs two containers of concealing radiation. the old remove these two is starting a facility was in the compound and put them back into walter. the job is far from straightforward walkers have two new bird who draws on the wall to prevent any radiation from escaping. and there would have to cope with higher levels of radiation. they might receive a problem. i wanted to know why nobody on the working environment here is more difficult and stressful than usual therefore i want to devote every interesting to see the transfer all the fuel rockets she. the show's say it will take more than a year to remove all the rocks from reactor number four. then there would have to do it all over aga the three other reactors. they haven't said when they expect to finish the operation is due to start this month. the delay disheartening. the long proce

weaken the building's structure experts say the roads must be moved to a safer place monitors of tokyo electric co a company have been recovering to start the job for the last two in a house two years. good plan to leave the rocks out with the quaint the building was too weak to support it. walker's few of us do pray. they would charge for the world's two containers of concealing radiation. there will then move these two are starting a facility was in the compound and put them back into wool sock. the job is far from straightforward. the walkers have two new group that draws on the wall to prevent any radiation from escaping. and there would have to cope with higher levels of radiation up to two hundred might receive a problem. i wanted to know why nobody on the working environment here is more difficult and stressful than usual therefore i want to devote every effort to see the transfer all the fuel dropped it. the show's say you will take more than a year to remove all the rocks from reactor number four then there would have to do it all over again the three of the reactors. they haven't said

the tokyo electric power company or tepco has announced it will finally began removing the radioactivefuel rods from the site of the three old reactors artie's alexei euro shift he is on the ground in japan i first asked him to update us on the state of the fuel rods . how we understand that the tepco company the one which is running the whole new nuclear power ration at the fukushima daiichi power plant will have to remove more than one thousand spent fuel rods from the pools where these fuel rods are now being kept and judging by what the experts have been saying this is definitely a very big challenge first of all. the pools where those rods are kept there are some debris from the explosion inside those pools and they have to be removed using cranes and sometimes they have to be even removed using manual force and also this operation such kind of operations happen more than four hundred nuclear stations across the planet on every day basis but in the case of the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant of course. most of the automated equipment doesn't work and there is no chance of ge

experts at the tokyo electric power agency or telco say that it is an extremely tricky process not a necessary step in rtd commission the plant after the worst timing accident in a generation art easel x eight euro cents. he is in tokyo and talks about how dangerous the session ends. back in the book from the pool has a really hard tough because each one of them go of ways of more than three hundred kilograms and they cannot even keep each other that's because that our new kitchen reactions on the only schools are crippled but the machinery the automated machinery doesn't work as well so everyone has to be extracted from the pool manually the typical company are running the push of a clear approach to santa japanese government are now in a vicious cycle situation because on the one hand the need to remove the fuel rods they are contaminating the water as has been reported in the waters of the cushion when you clip art on and on the other hand of course this is the very risky venture because they have to lead to extract every drop and as more than a thousand of them and each one has t

the tokyo electric power company or tepco has announced it will finally began removing the radioactivefuel rods from the site of the reactors artie's alexei he is on the ground in japan i first asked him to update us on the state of the fuel rods. and we understand that the tepco company the one which is running the whole new nuclear power ration at the fukushima daiichi power plant will have to remove more than one thousand spent fuel rods from the pools where these fuel rods are now being kept and judging by what the experts have been saying this is definitely a very big challenge first of all. the pools where those rods are kept there are some debris from the explosion inside those pools and they have to be removed using cranes and sometimes they have to be even removed using manual force and also this operation such kind of operations happen more than four hundred nuclear stations across the planet on every day basis but in the case of the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant of course. most of the automated equipment doesn't work and there is no chance of getting this equipment i