The first melted fuel sample recovered from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant arrived at a research facility in Ibaraki Prefecture to help devise methods for full-scale retrieval.

A robot tasked with navigating the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has successfully retrieved a small sample of melted nuclear fuel, marking a crucial step in Japan's journey ...

Tsuruga No. 2, operated by the Japan Atomic Power Co., is the first reactor to be rejected under safety standards adopted in 2013 based on lessons from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdown disaster ...

A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has arrived at a research lab near Tokyo, the plant operator said Tuesday, after a journey kept ...

No new date for a restart was given. The reactor is one of three at the Onagawa plant, which is 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of the Fukushima Daiichi plant where three reactors melted following ...

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in this photo taken on Aug. 21, 2022. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- China is expected to conduct a sampling of ...

It marks the first piece of the dangerous scrap removed from the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Three of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Okuma ...

The nuclear fuel debris collected on a trial basis from a crippled reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station weighs 0.7 gram, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said Friday.

Three of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan, suffered severe damage as a result of an earthquake and tsunami. New footage captures a robot ...

Japan's nuclear regulator has disqualified the country's Tsuruga No. 2 reactor from restarting for the first time under post-Fukushima safety standards. The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA ...

A Japanese nuclear reactor that restarted last week for the first time in more than 13 years after it survived a massive earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged the nearby Fukushima nuclear ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --Japanese nuclear plant workers, for the first time, removed a small amount of melted fuel from one of the Fukushima Daiichi plant reactors damaged in the devastating 2011 earthquake ...