The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said it will need 12 to 15 years of preparation – or until 2037 or later – before ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company newly released plan reveals the challenges to decommissioning the Fukushima nuclear plant by the ...

A full-scale retrieval of melted fuel debris at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant is likely to be delayed to fiscal 2037 or ...

Tepco has delayed Fukushima fuel debris removal to at least 2037, risking 2051 decommissioning goal as safety and technical ...

Reactor #1's Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System (an emergency security cooling system meant for emergencies) ran for 70 hours in Reactor #2, while it failed quickly in Reactor #1.

On Tuesday, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) launched the latest mission at the plant’s No 2 reactor, aiming to retrieve a fresh sample of radioactive debris from closer to the core.

The damaged Unit 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma town, Japan on Monday Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) ...

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 Daiichi nuclear power ...

Though the fuel sample is tiny, its retrieval has been a long time coming. After a series of robots perished trying to survey the area beneath Fukushima, an underwater bot dubbed "Little Sunfish ...

Operators hope to send the extendable robot farther into the reactor to take samples closer to the center, where overheated nuclear fuel fell from the core, utility spokesperson Masakatsu Takata ...

Telesco on Wednesday successfully clipped a piece presumably measuring less than 3 grams (0.1 ounce) from the planned area right underneath the Unit 2 reactor core, from which large amounts of ...

The damaged Unit 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Okuma town, Japan on Monday Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) Author: MARI YAMAGUCHI (Associated Press) Published ...