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 ...
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 ...
Fukushima Daiichi lost its key cooling systems during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, causing meltdowns in its three reactors. An estimated 880 tons of fatally radioactive molten fuel remains in ...