--- title: The Removal of Fuel From Fukushima Reactors Begins, Eight Years After the Disaster | TIME description: he operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the decades-long process to decommission the plant. canonical: https://time.com/video/jSYJ6FNx/ og:title: The Removal of Fuel From Fukushima Reactors Begins, Eight Years After the Disaster og:description: he operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the decades-long process to decommission the plant. og:url: https://time.com/video/jSYJ6FNx/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jSYJ6FNx/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Removal of Fuel From Fukushima Reactors Begins, Eight Years After the Disaster twitter:description: he operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the decades-long process to decommission the plant. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jSYJ6FNx/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # The Removal of Fuel From Fukushima Reactors Begins, Eight Years After the Disaster ## Video: The Removal of Fuel From Fukushima Reactors Begins, Eight Years After the Disaster [Watch (HLS stream): The Removal of Fuel From Fukushima Reactors Begins, Eight Years After the Disaster](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jSYJ6FNx.m3u8) (0:37)  _Published 2019-04-15. he operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the decades-long process to decommission the plant._ --- Jul 28, 2023 2:50 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Suicide in Fukushima: The Unspoken Legacy of A Disaster](/video/5vARmSEK/) ### Suicide in Fukushima: The Unspoken Legacy of A Disaster [Fukushima's Safety in Question](/video/Tjfl52kz/) ### Fukushima's Safety in Question [How Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Disaster Happened](/video/OCaxIAFI/) ### How Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Disaster Happened --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Removal of Fuel From Fukushima Reactors Begins, Eight Years After the Disaster","description":"he operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant has begun removing fuel from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in the decades-long process to decommission the plant.\n\n","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/jSYJ6FNx/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2019-04-15T09:59:21.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jSYJ6FNx.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/jSYJ6FNx/","duration":"PT37S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/jSYJ6FNx/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```