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TEPCO Takes On Challenge Of Making Space For Fukushima Nuclear Debris

Dismantling the water storage tanks is a crucial step in the decades-long project to decommission the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant (Credit: AFP)

Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes of nuclear debris, 14 years after the facility was hit by a devastating tsunami.

Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has been charged with finding a suitable place to store around 880 tonnes of radioactive material that remains inside the Fukushima Daiichi plant's damaged reactors.

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