7 (UPI) --Japanese nuclear plant workers, for the first time, removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the Fukushima ...

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

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

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

Tokyo: A difficult operation to remove a small piece of radioactive debris from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant ...

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 ...

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 Co. completed an experimental operation to remove a small sample of fuel debris from a reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Nov. 7, the company said.

TEPCO is currently in the decades-long process of decommissioning the power plant, which suffered core meltdowns that released radiation after being hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing ...

In this continuing series, Alan Carasso takes a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on ...

The sample will be transported to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency for analysis. Approximately 880 tons of fuel debris remains in three reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which ...

Radioactive debris was removed from the Unit 2 reactor at the plant and was placed inside a sealed container for transportation.