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than this and where tepco has brought us here. we are in the building that suffered that blast in days after the disaster. this is the cooling pool and inside there there are 1,500 spent fuel rods. what the company is doing is remove those fuel rods to a more stable location, they say. they insist it is a routine and they have done it many times before. the fuel rods will be removed and transferred to a pool 100 meters from the damaged reactor building an operation tepco is calling a milestone in the recovery effort. officials say they do not believe the fuel rods were damaged falling into the pool after the explosion but they won t know for sure until the operation begins. the large pieces of debris have been removed from the pool the plant chief tells us. we used an underwater vacuum cleaner to remove the smaller pieces but there may be tiny pieces left. nearby we show the water storage

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