New images have been released showing the scale of destruction inside an old reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The images showed brown icicle-shaped objects, control equipment, and other distorted materials deep inside the melted reactor.
Officials hope the long-awaited images will give them more insight and the chance to observe the nuclear reactor’s core since the plant’s cooling systems were wrecked by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that caused a Level 7 nuclear accident, the highest on the This image was taken by a drone and provided by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings shows displaced equipment and misshapen materials inside the No. 1 reactor as a drone probes the inside of the worst-hit reactor at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, northeastern Japan, on March 14, 2024.
TEPCO sent tiny drones into the vessel, collecting images and analyzing how to collect the debris for further investigation.This photo shows a drone designed to investigate the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant while in demonstration in Naraha, northeast of Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.
Officials could not determine whether the hanging “clump-like objects” were melted fuel or equipment. They were also unable to collect radiation because the lightweight drones could not carry the weight of a dosimeter, a tool used to collect and measure radiation.
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