Click to open image viewer. All of the Apollo lunar landing missions were equipped with containers specially designed to isolate small rock or soil samples from possible contamination during transfer ...

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A robot has, for the first time since the 2011 meltdown, retrieved a piece of radioactive fuel from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The remote-controlled robot, named ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. completed an experimental operation to remove a small sample of fuel debris from a reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on Nov. 7, the company said. This marked ...

China has developed a 100-tonne transport container for used fuel from large fast reactors, the China Institute of Atomic Energy announced. Following test verification of a full-scale prototype ...

This spherical container has been engineered to house the most scientifically valuable cargo imaginable: samples brought back from the Red Planet. Still probably many years in the future and most ...