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A Robot Begins Removal of Melted Fuel From the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. It Could Take a Century.
A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom. The robot’s trip into the Unit 2 …