Fukushima Daiichi: No. 5 and 6

Right now we're looking at the voluminous material available on the TEPCO plan, and one thing just jumped out which is worth noting in a distinct post to itself:

The defueling plan for the reactors INCLUDES No. 5 and No. 6 reactors.

This is, to our knowledge, the first official indication that these two remaining undamaged plants will be defueled. Since we already reported here a while back on the decommissioning of Nos. 1 through 4 and the cancellation of Nos. 7 and 8 the fate of the two remaining reactor plants was up in the air... and this seems to be the proof that TEPCO will give up any future hope of nuclear power generation on the Fukushima Daiichi site.

We might add that the plan doesn't indicate if, or when, anything else will be done to No. 5 and No. 6 plants, including demolition. But I think we all know how this will end up.

8:30 AM Eastern Sunday 4/17
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