The tsunami, which topped 15 meters (50 feet) in some areas, also slammed into the nuclear plant ... come under attack for hurting Fukushima’s reputation. The disaster-hit towns, including ...

A robot has delved into the radioactive ruins of Fukushima to retrieve a tiny chunk of spent nuclear fuel. It’s the first ...

The mission is not over until the sample's radioactivity is below a set standard and safely placed into a container ...

Another technical snag related to cameras on the apparatus caused a pause of over a month before the ... Three of Fukushima’s ...

Crews "quickly encircled the blaze" and "mopped it up" before it could spread to a nearby... The reactor is one of ... were shut down after the Fukushima disaster for safety checks and upgrades.

The camera problem required the robot to be pulled out all the way for replacement before the mission resumed Monday. Fukushima Daiichi ... the Unit 2 reactor core, from which large amounts of melted ...

TOKYO -- A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...