Fukushima operators send robot into worst-hit melted reactor

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Fukushima operators send robot into worst-hit melted reactor
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Remote-controlled robot used to probe the hardest-hit nuclear reactor at Japan's wrecked Fukushima plant.

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The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, said the submersible robot was sent into Unit 1's primary containment vessel to install a guiding path for five subsequent robots, which will attempt to asses and take samples of the melted fuel that emits fatally high radiation. Earlier probes showed that the fuel at Unit 1 is submerged by highly radioactive water as deep as 2 meters .

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