Operators sent the remote-controlled device into the No. 2 reactor where radiation levels have recently hit record highs. The "scorpion" robot is designed to withstand up to 1,000 sieverts of ...

TOKYO -- Robot probes sent to one of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant's ongoing cleanup. The plant's operator Tokyo Electric ...

ROBOT probes sent into a wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactor suggest that the clean-up process faces worse than anticipated problems, the plant operator admitted yesterday. Tokyo Electric Power Co ...

A new swimming robot is set to investigate damage at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Remote-controlled robots are key to the decades-long ...

This Feb. 16, 2017 photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) shows a remote-controlled "scorpion" robot inside the Unit 2 reactor's containment vessel at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power ...