Gov't to decide in Sept. debris extraction method at Fukushima unit

The Japanese government aims to decide around September on the method for extracting fuel debris from the No. 3 reactor of the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear complex following a recent survey using a robot, industry minister said Tuesday."Valuable information has been obtained from a survey inside the reactor using a submersible robot," Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko told reporters.The undersea robot for the first time captured images of materials, deemed "highly likely" to be melted fuel, scattered in the crippled reactor during the survey conducted last week.The investi…READ FULL ARTICLE