Officials had long hoped to reach the area to examine the core and melted nuclear ... easily overcame coastal defences for ...

The pedestal is directly under the reactor’s core. Officials hope to film the ... cleanup target set by the government and TEPCO for Fukushima Daiichi is overly optimistic.

Fukushima No. 1 plant decommissioning chief ... It is located directly under the reactor’s core. Officials hoped to film the core’s bottom to find out how overheated fuel dripped there in ...

Exceedingly high radiation levels found inside crippled reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear ... plug blocks radiation from the reactor core at normal times. When nuclear fuels ...

Longer term impact: Once the core is damaged and seawater is poured over reactors to cool them, Fukushima 1 (and possibly a plant in Tokai as well) will be useless beyond repair – hence a ...

The operator of the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima has released photos ... metal grate within the containment vessel under the reactor core. If that turns out to be molten fuel, it would ...

The Japanese earthquake is a tragedy of epic proportions in so many ways. The situation continues to evolve, and the full scope of the disaster will not be understood for a long time. One critical ...

A second explosion has hit a Japanese nuclear plant that was damaged in Friday's earthquake, but officials said the reactor core was still intact. A huge column of smoke billowed from Fukushima ...

TEPCO President Tomoaki Kobayakawa visited Fukushima Governor Masao Uchibori ... which covers the reactor core, rose to a critical level at 3 of the 4 reactors. Only the number 3 reactor was ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Toshiba has designed a swimming robot to make its way through deadly radiation in one of Fukushima's flooded and failed reactors. The radiation there is so powerful ...

it also hit the Fukushima nuclear power plant, triggering the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Parts of the damaged reactors are still highly contaminated with radiation and robotics ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency revealed that the debris was extracted from the Fukushima Prefecture plant's No. 2 reactor under the power ... In general, the core melt mainly consists of fuels (UO2 ...