20-Ton Object Removed From Fukushima Fuel Pool

OKUMA, JAPAN - AUGUST 02: In this aerial image, two cranes are used to remove a huge piece of debris from the nuclear fuel storage pool of the No. 3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on August 2, 2015 in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. removes a 20-ton piece of debris from a nuclear fuel storage pool. The reactor building was heavily damaged by a hydrogen explosion shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, triggered the nuclear crisis at the plant. The object removed was part of fuel replacement equipment used to load and unload nuclear fuel. It has prevented TEPCO from removing the nuclear fuel assemblies in the pool to a safer location. TEPCO plans to start the fuel-removal operation in January 2018 at the earliest. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)