A robot tasked with searching the wreckage inside Fukushima Daiichi's Unit 2 reactor has retrieved a sample of melted nuclear fuel.

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TEPCO plans to use the analysis of the sample to develop a method for the full-scale removal of the debris in the future. The utility and government aim to retrieve all the fuel debris and ...

Credit: TEPCO Though the fuel sample is tiny, its retrieval has been a long time coming. After a series of robots perished ...

I find little difference between wines aged with a screw cap and those under a good cork. But not all corks are good, and the incidence of cork-related oxidation and TCA taint is unacceptably high.

“I love the fantastic musical village that Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has created,” said US star Gregory Porter who headlined the 46th Jazz Festival. Over 100,000 music fans flocked to Cork ...

A Fine Gael councillor has encouraged anyone who may be eligible for the allowance to apply ahead of the upcoming season The councillor said the expansion of the scheme, which is a means tested ...

A number of offices and buildings were evacuated near City Gate in Mahon, Cork this morning following a confirmed gas leak. The leak, which has been described as serious, has since been isolated ...

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A 90-year-old man who died after being struck by a car in a supermarket car park in Fermoy, Co Cork, has been hailed as a “hero”. The fatality occurred in the local SuperValu car park on ...