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Robot Photos Appear Show Melted Fuel at Fukushima Reactor

A remote-controlled robot has captured images of what appears to be mounds of nuclear fuel that melted and fell to the bottom of the most damaged reactor at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, officials said Thursday. A massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011...

ESA Drone Carries Satellite Navigation Receivers to Collect Data

ESA’s Navigation Laboratory has a new recruit: this drone can carry different types of satellite navigation receivers to collect data for follow-on analysis. The NavLab, based at ESA’s ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is focused on the...