A remote-controlled robot has embarked on its second mission to retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant that was wrecked by a tsunami 14 y ...

"At 10:03 am (0103 GMT), the second trial extraction operation was started," Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said in a statement. The second removal comes after TEPCO completed ...

Japanese engineers began on Tuesday a difficult operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside the stricken Fukushima nuclear ...

A robot carrying cameras and a tong to grip tiny nuggets of radioactive debris has started working at the Fukushima nuclear plant wrecked by a tsunami in 2011.

At the bottom of the ocean, evidence of what researchers are calling a “supernova graveyard” has been discovered. But what ...

the man in charge of cleaning it up says his team is fighting to bring a sample out of the heart of the site’s radioactive debris. A decades-long project to clean up the remains of the Fukushima ...

But it is just the beginning of the challenges ahead, such as the removal of the fatally radioactive melted fuel debris that remains in the three damaged reactors, a daunting task if ever ...

"We live in a supernova graveyard," he stated, alluding to the remnants of supernova explosions that have managed to settle into Earth’s ocean depths. It's a captivating notion that these cosmic ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week started removing radium-contaminated soil from the former Silbert Watch Co ...

In addition to contaminated sandbags, around 880,000kg of radioactive debris remains in the plant. Removing this is seen as the most daunting challenge in the decades-long decommissioning project ...

In addition to contaminated sandbags, around 880 tons of radioactive debris remain in the plant. Removing this is seen as the most daunting challenge in the decades-long decommissioning project ...