the building that suffered the hydrogen blast in the days after the disaster and this is the cooling pool. there are 1500 spent fuel rods. what the company s doing over the coming days is to remove those fuel rods to a more stable location, they say. they insist it is a routine operation, they ve done it many times before. to remove it reporter: fuel rods removed and twaransferred to 100 meters from the damaged building an operation tepco s calling a milestone in the recovery effort. officials say they do not believe the fuel rods were damaged by debris 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 underwater vacuum cleaner to remove smaller pieces. nearby shown the water sotorage tanks up close. contaminated water one of