TEPCO aims to end Fukushima No. 4 unit's fuel removal in 2014

Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the government said Monday they will seek to complete the removal of all fuel assemblies inside the No. 4 unit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant by the end of 2014, a year earlier than initially planned.

The schedule was moved up amid lingering concern over the condition of the unit that stores 1,533 fuel assemblies in its spent fuel pool, the largest number among the four damaged units at the plant. The upper part of the unit's building was severely damaged by a hydrogen explosion last year.
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