By KEITARO FUKUCHI/ Staff Writer
April 28, 2025 at 07:00 JST
The robotic arm, developed with taxpayers’ money, is 22 meters long and weighs 4.6 tons. Its weight is supported by its base at the right. This photo was taken in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, in July 2022. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A narrow, attic-like space lies directly below the No. 5 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, showing the difficult route a robotic arm must take to collect samples of melted fuel debris in a sister reactor. [Read More]
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