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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
I was wondering about that, one facility is 37 years old, the other is 40. But for a reactor that was supposed to be decomminished last month, what in the sam hill is it doing with active fuel?
And more importantly, when will they be able to start pulling fuel rods out...
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And here is a useful side to my otherwise occassionally depressing job - I've read dozens of news reports and some of it contains useful information.
It is my understanding that at the Fukushima No.1 plant the fourth reactor at the complex was being used to store spent fuel rods. I guess they were winding down the whole plant, letting the fourth reactor go offline to use as storage. Unfortunately even the spent fuel rods require cooling and there was another hydrogen explosion inside the fourth reactor's containment building due to a cooling failure there.