NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Veteran safety Quandre Diggs confirmed reports he has agreed to a one-year deal with the Tennessee Titans.
“Long awaited news,” Diggs wrote on social media.
Diggs, 31, is a nine-year NFL veteran with 24 interceptions in a career split between the Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks.
He originally was a sixth-round pick of the Lions in 2015. Diggs was traded to Seattle during the 2019 season, and made three Pro Bowls with the Seahawks from 2020-22.
The move reunites Diggs with former Seahawks teammate Jamal Adams, signed by the Titans two weeks before training camp opened. In Adams’ first session with Tennessee media, he said he hoped that Diggs would sign in Tennessee with the men talking every day.
“We’ve known each other for so long, since we were kids. I’m not going to push him to come here," Adams said then. "Obviously, I would love for him to be here, but he has to figure out his process on his own and he will eventually. I know there are so many teams looking at him, and hopefully, we get him.”
Diggs brings even more depth to a Tennessee secondary that added cornerbacks Chidobe Awuzie and L'Jarius Sneed this offseason. The Titans also have veteran Amani Hooker at safety as well for first-year defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson.
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Tennessee Titans safety Jamal Adams (33) warms up during an NFL football training camp practice Wednesday, July, 24, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Titans safety Jamal Adams responds to to questions during a news conference after an NFL football training camp practice Wednesday, July, 24, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Titans head coach Brian Callahan laughs while talking to his coaches during an NFL football training camp practice Wednesday, July, 24, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Titans cornerback L'Jarius Sneed, top, second from left, listens to head coach Brian Callahan speak after an NFL football training camp practice Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
TOKYO (AP) — An extendable robot began on Tuesday a two-week mission to retrieve the first sample of melted fuel debris from inside one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Highly radioactive fuel and other materials in the reactors melted when a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged the plant's cooling systems.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, has previously used small robots to examine the inside of the reactors, but this is the first time for it to collect a sample of the melted debris in what will mark the start of the most challenging part of the plant's decadeslong decommissioning.
The mission was initially scheduled to begin on Aug. 22 but was suspended when workers noticed that five 1.5-meter (5-foot) pipes to be used to push the robot into the reactor had been arranged in the wrong order, TEPCO said.
The equipment was reassembled in the right order for Tuesday's attempt, the company said.
Once inside the reactor vessel, the robot is operated remotely from a safer location.
The robot, nicknamed “telesco," can extend up to about 22 meters (72 feet), including the pipes pushing it from behind, to reach the melted fuel mound, where it will use tongs to collect a fragment measuring less than 3 grams (0.1 ounce). It is expected to take about two weeks to obtain the fragment.
An estimated 880 tons of fatally radioactive molten fuel remains in the three reactors.
Chief government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi noted that the mission marked the start of the most difficult phase of the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup. “The government will firmly and responsibly tackle the decommissioning until the very end,” he said.
The government and TEPCO have set a 30- to 40-year target for the cleanup, despite criticism it is unrealistic. No specific plans for the full removal of the melted fuel debris or its storage have been decided.
In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), monitoring workers rearrange the push-in pipes into the right order, at Fukjushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings via AP)
In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), TEPCO executives observe plant officials making final procedural checks from an operation room to monitor and remote control an extendable robot, at Fukjushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings via AP)
This photo shows the Unit 2 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)
This photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)
FILE - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, also known as TEPCO, the operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reveals a robot to be used to retrieve debris at the power plant in Kobe, western Japan, May 28, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP, File)
