Workers in protective gear walk past thousands paper cranes at the emergency operation center of tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma in Fukushima prefecture Wednesday, June 12, 2013. More than two years after Japan’s nuclear disaster, damaged vehicles, twisted metal and other debris remain strewn about the Fukushima plant. Scores of pipes and hoses cover the ground in some places, either part of the company’s makeshift cooling system or left over from the meltdown. (AP Photo/Noboru Hashimoto, Pool)
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A worker checks radiations on the window of a bus at the screening point of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant, showed journalists the massive steel cage-like structure built next to one of the damaged reactor buildings to help extract more than 1,500 fuel rods from a cooling pool on top of it. TEPCO aims to start removing the 1,533 fuel rods in November, officials said during a tour of the plant Wednesday. Three reactors melted down at the plant after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura, Pool)
The crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen through a bus window.
The steel structure for the use of the spent fuel removal from the cooling pool is seen at the Unit 4.
