Loaded into a cask, the fuel assemblies were transferred from the crippled reactor building to the nearby common pool building at the power plant for safe storage.
The extraction of fuel from the Unit 4 spent fuel pool will pause shortly for a scheduled safety review of procedures and methods, whereas any necessary refinements are scheduled to be implemented in the next rounds of extractions.
The removal of all fuel inside the Unit 4 spent fuel pool is anticipated to take until the end of 2014.
Representing one of the three Fukushima reactors that were damaged in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the reactor 4 features more than 1,500 nuclear fuel rods in the storage pool, as reported earlier by China Central Television.
