The operator said on Tuesday steam was seen around the fifth floor of the building housing Reactor No 3 shortly after 9am (1000 AEST), Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said, adding workers are ...

A pair of remote controlled robots entered a reactor building at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on ... The robots entered the plant’s number 3 reactor building and were due to take ...

OKUMA, Japan (AP) — The Fukushima ... inside the No. 2 reactor building, where the melted fuel debris is behind a thick ...

Exceedingly high radiation levels found inside crippled reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ... containment vessels in the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors. Radiation levels were estimated ...

Parts of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power ... challenge of dismantling the crippled reactors. For example, the north wall of the No. 3 reactor building is littered with numerous marks left ...

The Japanese plants use continually-pumped water, which absorbs a great deal of heat, to cool their nuclear reactors. The earthquake knocked out the electricity at the Fukushima Daiichi plant run ...

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of Japan's destroyed Fukushima ... Daiichi No. 2 reactor to test the removal of debris from its primary containment vessel by October. That work is more than two ...

Engineers at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear ... possible after months of repair work and planning. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from inside reactor building four. Inside Japan's stricken ...