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      Japan Begins Removal of Fuel Rods From Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

   Technicians at Japan`s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have begun the
   difficult and dangerous task of removing fuel rods from a reactor
   building.
   A spokesman for the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company said Monday
   that the process to remove all the uranium and plutonium rods from a
   storage pool in reactor number four will take at least a year.
   After this operation, workers will begin removing the cores from three
   other reactors that went into meltdown after being hit by a powerful
   earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
   TEPCO says the decommissioning of the entire Fukushima facility could
   take 30 to 40 years. Any mistake or accident could release massive
   amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.
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