Operating company of Fukushima to use robot to remove melted nuclear fuel from destroyed reactor
A company has demonstrated a remote-operated robot designed to retrieve melted fuel debris at Japan’s ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The plan includes deploying telescoping pipe robots inside the reactor to begin removing debris by October. About 880 tonnes of highly radioactive molten nuclear fuel remains in the three damaged reactors. Operators of Japan’s […]