A rare look at the meltdown inside Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Photo: James Martin / CNET. Article by James Martin. CNET – March 10, 2021.

The cleanup will take decades in places humans can’t go. Robots will instead.

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on March 4, 2018, and we’re reposting it for the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster […].

The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 was the worst nuclear disaster in history. It’s also a place where technology plays a unique — and critical — role in the cleanup efforts.

This problem is so massive that it will likely take several decades and tens of billions of dollars to fix.

Ahead of the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the disaster, CNET paid a visit to Fukushima to look at the different kinds of technology being employed at the facility, whether it’s robots going into the reactors themselves, or drones and virtual reality offering views of the facility.

The following is a collection of key moments from our journey. […]

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