TEPCO Starts Removal Work Of Cover Over Damaged Fukushima Reactor Building

OKUMA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 22: Members of the Fukushima prefectural government's expert committee responsible for monitoring the reactor decommissioning effort at the plant, monitor an operation to make holes into a panel of a canopy covering the damaged No. 1 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on October 22, 2014 in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. After drilling into the 40-meter-by-7-meter panel, the workers sprayed synthetic, anti-scattering resin inside the building to minimize the possibility of radioactive substances being stirred up into the air. After dismantling the canopy, TEPCO plans to remove a large amount of the highly contaminated debris, rubble and dust that remain inside in fiscal 2016 and spent nuclear fuel rods stored in pools in fiscal 2017. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)