Second debris removal trial starts at Fukushima plant

Tokyo (AFP) April 15, 2025
Japanese engineers began Tuesday a difficult operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Around 880 tonnes of hazardous material are inside the site after a catastrophic tsunami caused by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered one of history's worst nuclear accidents in 2011. Removing the debris is seen as the most daunting ch