福島第２原発、廃炉着手　除染作業を報道公開―東電

　東京電力は６日、福島第２原発の廃炉作業に着手し、１号機原子炉建屋内で行われた除染作業の様子を報道陣に公開した。４４年かかるとされる廃炉工程の第一歩。機械や建物の解体に先だって除染を進め、作業員の安全を確保する。
　この日は東電や協力企業の社員１２人が全面マスクを着け、運転時に用いていた制御棒のメンテナンス機器の除染作業に当たった。今後、１～４号機の各設備の汚染状況を調査するという。（2021/07/06-18:56）

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. has started work to dismantle its Fukushima No. 2 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.
   Plant workers engaged in decontamination work at the No. 1 reactor of the plant Tuesday, marking the start of the 44-year decommissioning process for the plant.
   The decontamination work was disclosed to the media.
   The No. 2 plant, 12 kilometers south of TEPCO's meltdown-stricken No. 1 plant in the same prefecture, has four 1.1-million-kilowatt reactors, which entered into service between 1982 and 1987.
   Three of the four lost their cooling functions temporarily after being hit by a huge earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. But the three escaped suffering any major damage to their cores.