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Originally Posted by nexcom28
Why would it take decade(s) to remove fuel rods? How many of the flaming things are there?
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i'm going by strictly what i've read, so i'm just the messenger here but from what i understand-
tepko claims it will take a year. that's a best-case no problemo scenario.
each rod had to be removed delicately and cannot touch another rod.
there are 1000s of rods, ~1800 tons of fuel rods.
moreover, the rod containers were all damaged, rods cracked, etc. if 1 single rod touches another rod, or even wors- shatters, it could cause a chain-reaction nuclear explosion of all the other rods and the millions of tons of radioactive water they are storing there.