Work starts to lift cover from Fukushima reactor unit

Work starts to lift cover from Fukushima reactor unit

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. begins work on Oct. 22, 2014, to remove the cover placed over the building of the No. 1 nuclear reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001208888
  • Registered date
  • 2014/10/22 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2014 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 1452 × 1452 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 315.01(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

    Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

    Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (L) visits the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office on Dec. 14, 2024. (Pool photo)
      Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

      Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

      Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits an interim storage facility for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office on Dec. 14, 2024.
        Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

        Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

        Photo taken in Futaba in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Dec. 14, 2024, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visiting an area for temporary stockpiling of soil generated in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The prime minister visited the plant for the first time since taking office in October.
          Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

          Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

          Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (L) gets briefings on Dec. 14, 2024, from a Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. official on the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office. (Pool photo) ==Kyodo
            Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

            Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

            Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (front, L) gets briefings on Dec. 14, 2024, from a Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. official (front, R) on the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office. (Pool photo)
              Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

              Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

              Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (front, R) visits an interim storage facility for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office on Dec. 14, 2024.
                Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

                Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

                Photo taken in Futaba in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Dec. 14, 2024, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visiting an area for temporary stockpiling of soil generated in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The prime minister visited the plant for the first time since taking office in October.
                  Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

                  Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

                  Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (far L) visits the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office on Dec. 14, 2024. (Pool photo)
                    Central Japan nuclear unit fails safety check

                    Central Japan nuclear unit fails safety check

                    The Nuclear Regulation Authority, Japan's nuclear watchdog, holds a meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024, at which it formally decided the No. 2 reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture has failed to pass a safety review needed for its restart, due to the possibility that an active fault runs underneath the unit.
                      Central Japan nuclear unit fails safety check

                      Central Japan nuclear unit fails safety check

                      Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shinsuke Yamanaka holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024, after the Japanese nuclear watchdog formally decided the same day that the No. 2 reactor at the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture has failed to pass a safety review needed for its restart due to the possibility that an active fault runs underneath the unit.