19-11-2017 22:34 via rss.slashdot.org

Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel

An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo:
Earlier this year, remotely piloted robots transmitted what officials believe was a direct view of melted radioactive fuel inside Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant's destroyed reactors [YouTube] -- a major discovery, but one that took a long and painful six years to achieve... Japanese officials are now hoping that they can convince a skeptical public that the worst of the disaster is over, the New York Times reported, but it's not clear whether it's too l
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