{"id":584888,"date":"2026-08-30T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584888\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T11:42:16","slug":"ai-robots-and-drones-to-assist-in-fukushima-nuclear-plant-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584888\/","title":{"rendered":"AI robots and drones to assist in Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260829N Fukushima Daiichi\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Three reactors\u00a0at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contain 880 tons of debris.\u00a0(Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)<\/p>\n<p>MASATOSHI IDA<\/p>\n<p>August 30, 2026 06:07 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; AI robots and drones will assist in the removal of radioactive debris from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings expected to launch a consortium addressing those plans as soon as this fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three reactors\u00a0at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contain 880 tons of debris.\u00a0(Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura) MASATOSHI IDA August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,47178,139257,11286,2383,111,139,603,69,4885,11393,145],"class_list":["post-584888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-assist","tag-cleanup","tag-drones","tag-fukushima","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nuclear","tag-nz","tag-plant","tag-robots","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}