In 2011, 3 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered meltdowns. The operator plans to decommission the plant within 40 years. But the people involved in the process face a critical challenge: locating and removing tons of hardened nuclear debris. Engineers are trying to develop special robots and experimenting with life-size replicas of the reactors. In this program, we report from the frontline of efforts to deal with the fuel debris. |
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Title: | Decommissioning Fukushima: Removing Nuclear Debris | |
Air Date: | July 31, 2016 | |
Runtime: | 50 min | |
Susan Queen : This was hilarious until she started preaching near the end !