This handout taken on February 28, 2024 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) on February 29, 2024 shows a drone landing during the 'primary containment vessel internal investigation' of Unit 1 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on February 28 it has flown drones into a damaged reactor to examine ways to extract molten fuel debris from the plant. — AFP/TEPCO
TOKYO: Japan on Thursday sent two mini-drones and a "snake-shaped robot" into one of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant crippled by a tsunami in 2011, the facility's operator said.
The gadgets were deployed in preparation for the removal of hundreds of tonnes of highly radioactive fuel and rubble, a risky operation expected to take decades.
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