TEPCO finishes trial removal of unused fuel

TEPCO finishes trial removal of unused fuel

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 19, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. TEPCO said the same day it has finished the trial removal of two unused nuclear fuel assemblies from a fuel storage pool at the badly damaged No. 4 reactor unit without any major trouble.

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