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Drone video from inside a Fukushima reactor shows a hole in pressure vessel, likely fuel debris

Tech Xplore - Technology and Engineering news [Unofficial] March 20, 2026
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A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant showed a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely melted fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago.

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