TOKYO: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plans to replace two cameras that were hit by a glitch last month during trial work to remove nuclear fuel debris from its meltdown-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, company officials said Monday.

It is uncertain when the cameras attached to a device for the trial work at the No. 2 reactor of the plant in northeastern Japan will be replaced.

The trial work that TEPCO launched on Sept. 10 was halted seven days later as the company was not able to confirm images from the cameras. The cause of the malfunction remains unknown.

The start of the debris removal work was delayed for about three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

JIJI Press