Spent nuclear fuel pools are designed to cool fuel rods after they come out of a nuclear reactor. While powering a nuclear ...
The mission is not over until the sample's radioactivity is below a set standard and safely placed into a container ...
This is the first physical extraction of melted fuel from within the reactor containment vessel, a milestone in the ...
The restart of the boiling water reactor will be the second of such units since reactors of the same type were crippled in ...
The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant said it retrieved a tiny amount of melted fuel from one of ...
(AP Photo/Hiro Komae) 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 ...
TOKYO -- 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 power ...