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Nuclear fuel rods from Fukushima reactor 3 being painstakingly removed
8:26am PDT - April 15th, 2019 chernobyl - CNNEight years after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered Japan's worst ever nuclear disaster, work has begun to remove spent fuel rods from a reactor that went into meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.