OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture ... a structure beneath the defueled core, where officials explained the concept of using robotic probes in No. 1 and 2 reactors. TEPCO has emptied spent fuel from ...

A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear ...

A drone small enough to fit in one’s hand flew inside one of the damaged reactors at Japan’s Fukushima No ... is directly under the reactor’s core. Officials hope to film the core’s ...

Officials had long hoped to reach the area to examine the core and melted nuclear ... easily overcame coastal defences for ...

Now researchers can finally start digging into how the plant's materials have degraded over time—a factor that will greatly influence ... under the plant's Reactor #2 core.

The deposits were found underneath the core inside the primary containment vessel of Fukushima's unit 3 reactor. (C) British Broadcasting Corporation How Japan managed to get Fukushima's reactors ...

Fukushima Daiichi lost its key cooling systems ... from the planned area right underneath the Unit 2 reactor core, from which large amounts of melted fuel fell during the meltdown 13 years ago ...

Fukushima Daiichi lost its key cooling systems ... from the planned area right underneath the Unit 2 reactor core, from which large amounts of melted fuel fell during the meltdown 13 years ago ...

it also hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant, triggering the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Parts of the damaged reactors are still highly contaminated with radiation and robotics ...

The Fukushima nuclear plant was damaged when ... 1 reactor's primary containment vessel - an area directly under the reactor's core. Hydrogen and radioactive materials were released into the ...

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 plant for ...