Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) sent a robot to examine a reactor' containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled in a 2011 incident dubbed the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. sputniknews.com Kyodo News is reporting the robot died inside unit 1′s containment during the inspection. fukuleaks.org Rosatom plans to open a regional centre in China "as early as" the middle of this year, the Russian state nuclear corporation announced yesterday. world-nuclear-news.org Restrictions on waterway access to a canal along the Connecticut River near a shuttered nuclear plant will be lifted under a plan that also calls for additional security at the Haddam Neck site where spent nuclear fuel remains held in storage. foxct.com