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A submersible robot has spotted what representatives from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) say is likely missing melted nuclear fuel from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the wake of a magnitude 9 earthquake, the power plant was disastrously taken off-line. The area remains contaminated so an unmanned robot nicknamed "Little Sunfish" was sent below water to survey the flooded parts of plant and hunt for the melted nuclear fuel. Tepco spokesman Takahiro Kimoto told the Japan Times that video taken by the robot over three days shows clumps of what is likely to be melted fuel.