Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool Debris Removal Update: Fuel Handling Machine Set for Removal

[FBaggins]

Last edited Tue May 13, 2014, 05:42 AM - Edit history (1)

Just as the start of fuel assembly removal from Reactor 4's Spent Fuel Pool was anticlimactic (FB - despite fevered predictions of doom), so is the removal of debris from Reactor 3's Spent Fuel Pool. No one reports it (not even the independent journalists these days), and TEPCO does not publicize.

According to the progress report inside the updated Roadmap (4/24/2014; from page 222 to page 233), since December 17, 2013, TEPCO has so far removed from the Reactor 3 Spent Fuel Pool:
• 322 reinforcing bars (out of 330 total)
• 55 deck plates (out of 65)
• 6 roof trusses (out of 9)
• 1 Fuel Handling Machine mast (out of 1)

Having removed debris that was in the way of removing Fuel Handling Machine, TEPCO (and the main contractor Kajima) is now removing the Fuel Handling Machine itself, which weighs about 35 tonnes.




http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2014/05/fukushima-i-npp-reactor-3-spent-fuel.html

Worth noting that there are still a handful on the fringe who believe that there was a nuclear explosion in this pool. One wonders at what point (if ever) Arnie will return to the real world.

[hunter]

1. Your link didn't work for me.

The blog didn't like the slash at the end.

This works: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2014/05/fukushima-i-npp-reactor-3-spent-fuel.html

It's a mess, yes, but no Chernobyl.

[FBaggins]

2. Fixed it. Thanks! nt