燃料デブリ取り出し延期　２３年度後半目指す―福島第１原発

　東京電力福島第１原発２号機からの、溶け落ちた核燃料（デブリ）の取り出しについて、東電は２５日、年内の開始を延期し、２０２３年度後半を目指す方針を明らかにした。デブリ取り出しの延期は２度目。廃炉作業全体のスケジュールへの影響はないとしている。
　東電は当初、２１年中にデブリの試験的な取り出し作業に取り掛かる予定だった。だが、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大の影響で準備に遅れが生じ、２２年中に開始時期を遅らせていた。（2022/08/25-20:14）

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. will delay the start from this year to the second half of fiscal 2023 of the removal of melted nuclear fuel debris from the No. 2 reactor at its disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, company officials said Thursday.
   It is the second time for the company to postpone the start of the debris removal.
   The delay will not affect the entire schedule for the decommissioning of the plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, which suffered a triple-meltdown accident due to the March 2011 tsunami and earthquake, according to the officials.
   TEPCO initially planned to start the debris removal on a trial basis in 2021. But it postponed the start to 2022, citing a delay in preparations due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
   The second postponement comes after the company found it necessary to improve a robot arm for the removal as a result of a test of the robot arm conducted from February this year.