This is the first physical extraction of melted fuel from within the reactor containment vessel, a milestone in the ...

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

He was sued and prosecuted for his actions as chairman of the Japanese power company that ran the Fukushima nuclear facility ...

Japanese nuclear plant workers, for the first time, removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the Fukushima Daiichi ...

More than 13 years after an earthquake-turned-tsunami triggered the second-largest nuclear accident in global history, a ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor that withstood the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Fukushima Daiichi plant has ...

The No. 2 reactor is now the 13th of Japan's remaining 33 operational reactors to come back online and the first of the same ...

Around 800 tonnes of fatally radioactive molten fuel remains in the plants, and the mission is a step in a long-term clean-up ...

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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 ...

The Pacific Ocean looks over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan ... to transmit views of the target areas for its operators in the remote control room failed. The camera problem ...

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 ...