Removing the fuel rods began in the 3rd reactor the Japanese nuclear power plant " Fukushima-1 ", where in 2011 due to the powerful earthquake and tsunami occurred ogromnaya After the Chernobyl Accident, informs TV channel NHK. the pool in the 3rd reactor are highly radioactive waste 514 and 52 unused fuel rods. The company-operator TEPCO has started to remove their four year and four months later than planned originally. The work is carried out with a crane and crane with remote control. in the video released by the firm, seen As from the storage of nuclear fuel the hand of the manipulator takes the square frame with the exhaust studs. Despite the presence of debris in the pool, TEPCO said that the Fuel rods themselves are not damaged. This is the first attempt to retrieve fuel from three boilers that melted After the disaster in 2011. To do this, TEPCO had to clean up the radioactive debris and to deactivate the upper floor of the building with the reactor that houses the fuel pool. The spent rods are removed and placed into a cooling pool, another nuclear power plant As on the air they are heated to several hundred degrees. As underlined by the Agency Kyodo, After checking the first batch of seven frames rods in June, the excavation will continue. In the 3rd reactor Works is planned to finish in 2020, and in the first and 2nd reactors in 2023. Only three reactors "Fukushima-1" are 1573 rod. The accident at the NPP "Fukushima-1" was recognized as the largest in 25 years After the Chernobyl disaster. After the earthquake of magnitude 9, 0 a giant wave with a height of fifteen meters flooded the power units of the station, caused the disconnection of their electricity supply that led to the halt of the cooling system boilers. on the first, 2nd and 3rd reactors, nuclear fuel melted and accumulated at the bottom of the containment. On the first, 3rd and fourth power units of the resulting hydrogen explosions damaged or destroyed roof. This led to radiation leaks and contamination of large areas in the station area. The fuel rods of the 4th reactor of Fukushima learned in 2014. <span style="color:darkgray