Japan electric company removes small debris from Fukushima nuclear plant

Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Japanese nuclear plant workers, for the first time, removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the Fukushima Daiichi plant reactors damaged in the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, officials said on Thursday.

The debris in the No. 2 reactor amounted to a pebble-size substance weighing less than three grams. It is a small step in the continued cleanup of the site that has been more than a decade in the making.

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