Robot retrieves first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor
Voice of America
FILE - A spokesperson of the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings shows photos captured by a robotic probe inside one of the three melted reactors at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant during a news conference at the TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo on April 4, 2023.
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 plant for the first time since the 2011 meltdown.
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