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This Feb. 13, 2021 photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of the Fukushima ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (Tepco) has retrieved a small amount of nuclear fuel debris from the unit 2 ...

Iwaki, my home town, stood on the edge of uncertainty – part of it was close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In this video image taken from NTV Japan, smoke rises from Fukushima ...

A tricky operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been completed, the site operator said on Wednesday (April 23 ...

The second sample of melted nuclear fuel has been retrieved from crippled Fukushima reactor, according to the operator of the ...

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has completed the second fuel debris trial retrieval process at the No.2 unit. The plant in northeastern Japan suffered a ...

The robot stone statue outside the home of Shinichi Takamatsu is seen in the city of Fukushima on March 9, 2025. (Mainichi/Yuichi Nishigori) FUKUSHIMA -- Along the way to the famed Takayu Onsen ...

A tricky operation to remove a second sample of radioactive debris from inside the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has been completed, the site operator said Wednesday. Dangerously high ...