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

Small sample to aid in planning the safe decommissioning of the nuclear plant, which contains an estimated 880 tons of highly ...

A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small ...

The nuclear fuel sample, the size of a grain of rice, was placed into a secure container Thursday, marking the end of the ...

The collected substance will be analyzed at four facilities for research toward full-scale extraction of nuclear fuel debris.

The in-depth story of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster On March 11, 2011, the Japanese islands were struck by an ...

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

A robot (top right) grips a tiny piece of gravel from what it believed to be melted fuel debris at the No 2 reactor, ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company announced it has successfully completed the trial removal of a sample of fuel debris from the ...

A tiny amount of melted nuclear fuel was retrieved for the first time the other day from one of the reactors at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The recovery from the bottom ...

THIS is the moment a robot digs out a rice-sized scrap of nuclear fuel from 880 tons of irradiated nuclear waste and make a startling discovery. It marks the first piece of the dangerous scrap ...