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

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

The sample was collected from a mound of molten fuel debris from the base of Fukushima's reactor number 2's primary ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

The Pacific Ocean looks over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it ...

A robot has delved into the radioactive ruins of Fukushima to retrieve a tiny chunk of spent nuclear fuel. It’s the first ...

A robot has recovered a highly radioactive sample from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. This was preceded by a number of ...

Around 880 tons of fuel debris remains in three reactors, which experienced core meltdowns during the nuclear disaster. Like a Mars rover, the robot had to take several days to get to its ...

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

TOKYO: Technicians tested the radiation level of debris from inside a damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima plant on Tuesday ...