On March 11, 2011, disaster struck Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant when a powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the Tohoku region of Japan, killing

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) demonstrated the robot where it was developed, at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in the city of Kobe, on Tuesday. The bot can be deployed in pipes and includes telescopic tongs that can pick up small amounts of radioactive fuel at a time.

Nuclear reactors No. 3 and No. 4 at the Takahama nuclear power plant in western Japan will be able to operate for 20 more years, totalling up to 60 years, the country's nuclear regulator announced Wednesday.

The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has demonstrated how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors

TEPCO has unveiled its bold plans to retrieve nuclear fuel from Fukushima's damaged reactors using a remote-controlled robot.

The work is more than two years behind schedule, underscoring the difficulty of recovering from the quake and tsunami in 2011