TEPCO takes on challenge of making space for Fukushima nuclear debris

Workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tons 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.

“Currently, there is no more land available in Fukushima Daiichi”, Naoki Maeshiro, project manager for TEPCO, who is overseeing the operation which began on Friday, told AFP.