A robot has, for the first time since the 2011 meltdown, retrieved a piece of radioactive fuel from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The remote-controlled robot, named Telesco, used its fishing-rod-like arm to clip gravel up to 5mm (0.2 inches) in size — about as large as a tiny granola bit — from the surface of a mound of molten fuel debris at the bottom of the No 2 reactor’s primary containment vessel.
