TEPCO continues to unload spent fuel pool of Fukushima Daiichi-4 AtomInfo.Ru, PUBLISHED 11.12.2014 The TEPCO continues to work for unloading the fuel assemblies from the spent fuel pool of forth unit of Fukushima Daiichi NPP in Japan. As of December 08, 2014, the 1,463 assemblies are unloaded from the pool including 1,331 irradiated and 132 fresh ones. Totally at the time of the year 2001 accident it was 1533 assemblies in the pool. Of these, it was 1,331 irradiated and 202 fresh ones. The unloading of irradiated assemblies has been ended in early November. Now the employees of the company unload the fresh fuel assemblies remaining in the pool. The assemblies are discharged from the pool and placed in the general station location. The company hopes to finish unloading the pool until the end of 2014. Topics: NPP Fukushima Daiichi Other news: Electricity generation in Pyhajoki starts in ten years time The Finnish Parliament has voted 115 to 74 in favour of Fennovoima's supplement to the Decision-in-Principle regarding the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Pyhajoki, Finland. Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization approved the EIA Report of Akkuyu NPP Akkuyu nuclear power plant in province of Mersin will be the first nuclear power plant in territory of the Republic of Turkey. Fuel loading completed on Rostov-3 The completion of the unit is going ahead of schedule. |
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