A robot's attempt to get a sample of the melted nuclear fuel at Japan's damaged reactor is suspended

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TOKYO (AP) — An attempt to use a telescoping robot to remove a sample of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a...

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