TOKYO -- A plan to remove spent nuclear fuel from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant hit by the March 2011 tsunami has been postponed again due to delays in preparation. The work is now set to begin in fiscal 2018 at the earliest.
The government and the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings, originally planned to start removing spent fuel at the No. 3 reactor in the first half of fiscal 2015. But in view of still high levels of radioactivity around the facilities, the schedule was revised to fiscal 2017.
