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

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

A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has arrived at a ...

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

A small amount of radioactive debris removed by a robot from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has arrived at a research ...

(Kyodo News via AP, File) FILE - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, also known as TEPCO, the operator of Japan’s wrecked ...

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

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

Fukushima, Japan, suffered severe damage as a result of an earthquake and tsunami. New footage captures a robot claw grab onto the tiny piece of melted waste and the clean up formally begin on the ...

This is the first physical extraction of melted fuel from within the reactor containment vessel, a milestone in the ...

A remote-controlled robot has retrieved the first piece of melted nuclear fuel from the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The piece will now be analyzed to assess how radioactive materials at the ...

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