japan's nuclear rods to go

Workers at Japan's terrible incident of the Fukushima nuclear plant have begun removing fuel rods from a storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor building.

It will take about two days to remove the first 22 fuel rod assemblies, theplant operator Tepco says. Overall, more than 1,450 assemblies have to be removed in what correspondents describe as a risky and dangerous operation set to take a year.