A snake-shaped robot armed with a camera helped give officials their first look into one of the reactors at the Japanese nuclear plant that crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, ...

A snake-shaped robot equipped with a camera took the first look inside one of the reactors at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

TOKYO — Japan sent on Thursday two mini-drones and a "snake-shaped robot" into one of three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant crippled by a tsunami in 2011, the facility's operator said.