The water from the deadly tsunami easily overcame coastal defences for Fukushima and flooded the reactor, causing it to melt ...

to support Fukushima fisheries. The contents of the three reactors is still largely a mystery. Little is known, for instance, about the melted fuel’s condition or exactly where it’s located ...

OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Eleven years after ... The challenge of removing melted fuel from the reactors is so daunting that some experts now say that setting a completion target is impossible ...

a robot has snagged a piece of melted fuel from the fatally radioactive Fukushima reactor. Now researchers can finally start ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) is preparing to dismantle tanks containing treated water at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP site ...

ODAKA, Japan >> Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with ...

She uses it to detect gamma rays, a telltale sign of the radioactive particles that escaped when three reactors melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 after an undersea ...

were shipped in pieces and bolted together as makeshift repository for the cascade of water being pumped through the reactors of Fukushima every day to keep fuel in the melted cores from overheating.

Sharply criticized for failing to protect the Fukushima plant against natural ... of radioactive water being flushed over the melted reactors in Units 1, 2 and 3 at the plant.

The team says that, for the first time, the fallout of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor fuel ... as it provides much needed data on the status of the melted nuclear fuels in the damaged reactors.

1 ounce of radioactive debris in order to develop future decomissioning methods for nuclear reactors. Robot to remove melted nuclear fuel debris from Japan’s Fukushima reactor Critics say the 30 ...

A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel ...