Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on the 1st that it will begin an internal survey of the containment vessel at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant's Reactor 2 on the 2nd, deploying a robotic arm inside. The deployment had been stalled due to a malfunction in the robotic arm. The survey is scheduled to start on the morning of the 2nd, with the robotic arm inserted through a penetration port in the containment vessel, aiming to acquire three-dimensional data of the interior and collect melted nuclear fuel, so-called debris. The survey period is expected to last about six months.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, IncorporatedTEPCO begins a robotic-arm internal survey of Fukushima No. 1 Reactor 2 containment vessel to gather 3D data and collect melted fuel debris, after earlier arm malfunction delays.
