Plant chief Akira Ono has said it will provide key data to plan a decommissioning strategy, develop necessary technology and robots and learn how the accident had developed.
In a step toward cleanup, a tiny grain of nuclear fuel is pulled from ruined Japanese nuclear plant
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Ono said experts and workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant hope to make progress in assessing more details of melted debris that still remain inside of the three reactors.
Fukushima nuclear plant operator says it has no new safety concerns after Jan. 1 earthquake
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