New images have been released showing the scale of destruction inside an old reactor at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The photographs, taken using miniature drones, were released on Monday by Tokyo Electric Power Company.
The images showed brown icicle-shaped objects, control equipment, and other distorted materials deep inside the melted reactor.
Officials hope the long-awaited images will give them more insight and the chance to observe the nuclear reactor’s core since the plant’s cooling systems were wrecked by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that caused a Level 7 nuclear accident, the highest on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.
This image was taken by a drone and provided by Tokyo
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