A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel on Thursday, in what plant officials said was a step toward beginning the cleanup of hundreds of tons of melted fuel debris.

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TOKYO (AP) — A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel on Thursday, in what plant officials said was a step toward beginning the cleanup of hundreds of tons of melted fuel debris. The sample, the […]

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A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel, in what plant officials said was a step toward beginning the cleanup of hundreds of tons of m...

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Radioactivity levels inside the old plant, which collapsed in 2011, are too high for humans to approach; debris will give clues about conditions inside the reactors A difficult operation to remove a small piece of radioactive debris from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, hit in Japan, using a robotic device, was successfully completed, the plant's operator said on Thursday. Technical problems had interrupted previous attempts.
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Níveis de radioatividade dentro da antiga usina, que entrou em colapso em 2011, são altos demais para humanos se aproximarem; detrito vai dar pistas sobre condições dentro dos reatores Uma operação difícil para remover um pequeno pedaço de detritos radioativos da usina nuclear de Fukushima, atingida no Japão, usando um dispositivo robótico, foi concluída com sucesso, disse o operador da usina nesta quinta-feira. Problemas técnicos haviam interro…

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Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel, in what plant officials said was a step toward beginning the cleanup of hundreds of tons of melted fuel debris. The sample, the size of a grain of rice, was placed into a secure container Thursday, marking the end of the mission, according to the company that …

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THIS is the moment a robot digs out a rice-sized scrap of nuclear fuel from 880 tons of irradiated nuclear waste and make a startling discovery. It marks the first piece of the dangerous scrap removed from the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. Associated PressThe Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by a tsunami, causing the disaster[/caption]
Twitter / @nhk_fukushimaThe robot grabbed a rice-sized sample from a waste mound[/caption]
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(Bloomberg) — Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it removed nuclear fuel debris left inside a reactor in a demonstration at its Fukushima power plant, 13 years after a meltdown.

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TOKYO (AP) — A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel on Thursday, in what plant officials said was a step toward beginning the clean

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