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[Breaking News]TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 25 Kyodo - Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

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TEPCO to reboot 1st reactor since Fukushima disaster

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. President Tomoaki Kobayakawa speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 24, 2025. TEPCO plans to restart the No. 6 unit at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear complex in Niigata Prefecture on Jan. 20, the utility's first reactor reboot since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

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Ministerial meeting on Fukushima nuclear power plant

A ministerial meeting is held over issues regarding the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the release of treated wastewater from the crippled complex, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2025.

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Ministerial meeting on Fukushima nuclear power plant

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (far R) speaks at a ministerial meeting over issues regarding the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the release of treated wastewater from the crippled complex, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2025.

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Ministerial meeting on Fukushima nuclear power plant

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a ministerial meeting over issues regarding the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the release of treated wastewater from the crippled complex, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2025.

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[Breaking News]Fukushima soil moved to PM's yard in effort to allay safety fears

TOKYO, Japan, July 19 Kyodo - Soil collected in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is delivered to central Tokyo on on July 19, 2025, to be spread in the front yard of the prime minister's office, as the government attempts to allay safety concerns about its use. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima soil moved to PM's yard in effort to allay safety fears

Soil collected in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is delivered to central Tokyo on on July 19, 2025, to be spread in the front yard of the prime minister's office, as the government attempts to allay safety concerns about its use.

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Fukushima soil moved to PM's yard in effort to allay safety fears

Soil collected in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is delivered to central Tokyo on July 19, 2025, to be spread in the front yard of the prime minister's office, as the government attempts to allay safety concerns about its use.

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Fukushima soil moved to PM's yard in effort to allay safety fears

Soil collected in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is delivered to central Tokyo on on July 19, 2025, to be spread in the front yard of the prime minister's office, as the government attempts to allay safety concerns about its use.

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Fukushima soil moved to PM's yard in effort to allay safety fears

Soil collected in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is delivered to central Tokyo on on July 19, 2025, to be spread in the front yard of the prime minister's office, as the government attempts to allay safety concerns about its use.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 22 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. The operator of the disaster-stricken complex was set to attempt to remove a small amount of melted fuel from one of its crippled reactors the same day, but decided to put the extraction trial on hold due to issues discovered during preparations. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. The operator of the disaster-stricken complex was set to attempt to remove a small amount of melted fuel from one of its crippled reactors the same day, but decided to put the extraction trial on hold due to issues discovered during preparations.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 2 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. The operator of the disaster-stricken complex was set to attempt to remove a small amount of melted fuel from one of its crippled reactors the same day, but decided to put the extraction trial on hold due to issues discovered during preparations.

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Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 2 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. The operator of the disaster-stricken complex was set to attempt to remove a small amount of melted fuel from one of its crippled reactors the same day, but decided to put the extraction trial on hold due to issues discovered during preparations.

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Industrial complex in nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima town

Photo taken on April 22, 2023, shows a towel shop housed in an industrial complex that opened the same day in the northeastern Japan town of Futaba that co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, following the partial lifting of an evacuation order in August 2022.

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Industrial complex in nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima town

Photo taken on April 22, 2023, shows a cafe housed in an industrial complex that opened the same day in the northeastern Japan town of Futaba that co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, following the partial lifting of an evacuation order in August 2022.

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Industrial complex in nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima town

An industrial complex housing a twisted yarn factory, a towel shop and a cafe opens in the northeastern Japan town of Futaba that co-hosts the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on April 22, 2023, following the partial lifting of an evacuation order in August 2022.

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Kin sue TEPCO over suicide of 102-yr-old man amid nuclear crisis

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, July 29 Kyodo - Relatives of Fumio Okubo, who committed suicide at the age of 102 in Fukushima in 2011, head to the Fukushima District Court on July 29, 2015. The relatives filed a damages suit against the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex for the mental anguish the man suffered when ordered to evacuate amid the nuclear crisis. (Editorial use only)

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2 workers die at Fukushima Daiichi, Daini nuclear plants

NARAHA, Japan - Senior officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., including Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono (C), bow during a press conference on Jan. 20, 2015, in the northeastern Japanese city of Naraha, as two workers died in separate accidents at the Daiichi plant and the nearby Daini complex, despite TEPCO's pledge to improve working conditions at the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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TEPCO removes another panel from reactor cover

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 10, 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 1 nuclear reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan, after its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. removed a second panel from the roof of the cover shrouding the building. The removal, conducted on a trial basis, is a first step toward demolishing the cover and eventually removing spent fuel rods stored in a cooling pool in the building.

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Spent fuel removed from Fukushima Daiichi No. 4 unit pool

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 2014 shows workers removing fuel from the nuclear fuel pool of the No. 4 rector at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi complex. Its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said on Nov. 5, 2014, it has completed the operation of removing all of the used fuel, leaving only less risky unused fuel in the pool.

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Planned restart of nuclear power plant in Kagoshima

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Photo shows Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in the city of Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Nov. 3, 2014. The same day, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoichi Miyazawa visited the complex, which is expected to be the first nuclear plant to be brought back online under new safety regulations adopted after the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Ex-Futaba mayor to run in Fukushima gubernatorial race

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba, home of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, announces on Sept. 16, 2014, in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima that he will run in the October Fukushima gubernatorial election. Idogawa served as Futaba mayor from December 2005 to February 2013.

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New reconstruction minister visits Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Newly appointed Reconstruction Minister Wataru Takeshita shakes hands with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the prefectural office in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Sept. 4, 2014. They exchanged views on how to promote rehabilitation from the March 2011 disasters and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Fukushima Gov. indicates accepting radioactive waste storage

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Aug. 25, 2014, shows the candidate site to build storage facilities for radioactive waste from radiation decontamination operations following the nuclear disaster at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi complex in northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe (C) heads for the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima with a picture of his late wife Hamako on Aug. 26, 2014. The court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako, who was forced to evacuate from her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe (L), holding a picture of his late wife Hamako, answers reporters' questions outside the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Aug. 26, 2014, after the court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako. The couple was forced to evacuate from their home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Lawyers show triumphal banners in front of the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima on Aug. 26, 2014, after the court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of a woman forced to evacuate her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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TEPCO ordered to pay damages over evacuee's suicide

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Mikio Watanabe heads for the Fukushima District Court in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima with a picture of his late wife Hamako on Aug. 26, 2014. The court ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to pay 49 million yen in damages over the suicide of Hamako, who was forced to evacuate her home by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Japan to disclose Fukushima nuclear plant chief's testimony

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces on Aug. 25, 2014, in Tokyo that the government will release transcripts of interviews with those who had key roles in handling the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex next month. The interviewees include the late Masao Yoshida, who headed the plant when the crisis broke out in March 2011.

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New office at Fukushima Daiichi plant shown to press

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An office newly built at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex is opened to the press in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 8, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Work on underground ice wall at Fukushima plant unveiled

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An official in charge (R) explains to reporters about work to build an underground ice wall at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 8, 2014, to prevent radioactive water from flowing into the sea. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO shows installation work for underground ice wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on July 8, 2014, shows installation work for a massive underground ice wall being constructed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima. The ice wall is aimed at preventing groundwater from seeping into reactor buildings and mixing with heavily contaminated water at the complex. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO shows installation work for underground ice wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on July 8, 2014, shows installation work for a massive underground ice wall being constructed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima. The ice wall is aimed at preventing groundwater from seeping into reactor buildings and mixing with heavily contaminated water at the complex. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO shows installation work for underground ice wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on July 8, 2014, shows a dosimeter displaying the high radiation level at a worksite for the installation of a massive underground ice wall at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima. The ice wall is aimed at preventing groundwater from seeping into reactor buildings and mixing with heavily contaminated water at the complex. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO shows installation work for underground ice wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on July 8, 2014, shows installation work for a massive underground ice wall being constructed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima. The ice wall is aimed at preventing groundwater from seeping into reactor buildings and mixing with heavily contaminated water at the complex. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO shows installation work for underground ice wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on July 8, 2014, shows installation work for a massive underground ice wall being constructed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima. The ice wall is aimed at preventing groundwater from seeping into reactor buildings and mixing with heavily contaminated water at the complex. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO shows installation work for underground ice wall

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken on July 8, 2014, shows installation work for a massive underground ice wall being constructed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima. The ice wall is aimed at preventing groundwater from seeping into reactor buildings and mixing with heavily contaminated water at the complex. (Pool photo)

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Iwaki Lalamew commercial facility in Fukushma Pref.

IWAKI, Japan - Marine products are sold at Iwaki Lalamew commercial facility in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 21, 2014 amid the operation of a groundwater bypass system by Tokyo Electric Power Co. in which groundwater is released into the sea before approaching the heavily contaminated area of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.

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Fukushima port

SOMA, Japan - Fishing boats are berthed at Matsukawaura port in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 21, 2014, where local fishermen have been facing hardship due to a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said that day it started dumping into the Pacific Ocean hundreds of tons of groundwater collected at the crippled nuclear complex after having confirmed that its radiation level meets safety guidelines.

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Controversial gourmet comics

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a long-running gourmet comic called "Oishinbo" in the editions for release on April 28 (R), 2014, and on May 19 (L), 2014, of the Big Comic Spirits, a weekly Japanese comic magazine, that was released. After a wave of criticism over depictions of the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in the comic in the edition released on April 28, Shogakukan Inc., the publisher of the magazine, accepted the criticism in the edition released on May 19.

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Japan decides new energy policy

TOKYO, Japan -Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi holds a press conference at the industry ministry in Tokyo on April 11, 2014, after the government adopted the Basic Energy Plan at a Cabinet meeting earlier in the day. The new energy policy labels nuclear power as an important source of electricity, retracting a nuclear phase-out goal upheld by the predecessor government after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi complex disaster.

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Japan decides new energy policy

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (far L) speaks at a meeting of Cabinet ministers on renewable energy at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 11, 2014. The government decided at a separate meeting earlier that day on an energy policy that labels nuclear power as an important source of electricity, retracting a nuclear phase-out goal upheld by its predecessor after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi complex disaster.

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Fukushima school set to reopen after temporary evacuation

TAMURA, Japan - Teachers at Furumichi Elementary School in the Miyakoji district of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, prepare decorations on March 31, 2014, for a first-day-of-school ceremony to be held April 7. The school, which had been relocated to a temporary campus in the aftermath of the March 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, is set to reopen at its original location as the government lifted an evacuation order for the area on April 1.

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Temporary store to open in Fukushima at end of evacuation

TAMURA, Japan - A worker shows on March 31, 2014, empty shelves to be filled with products at a temporary store scheduled to open in the Miyakoji district of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. A government evacuation order for the area, issued due to radioactive contamination in the aftermath of the March 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex, was lifted on April 1.

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Gov't, fishermen meet over Fukushima plant groundwater

SOMA, Japan - Tetsu Nozaki (2nd from L), head of the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations, conveys the association's stance to Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (R) regarding the planned dumping in the sea of groundwater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex during a meeting in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, on March 30, 2014. Motegi told the local fishermen the groundwater will not be released until the season for catching young sand lance in a test run is over at the end of April.

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H.K. Yoshinoya poster says 'no ingredients from Fukushima'

HONG KONG, China - A poster at a Hong Kong outlet of Japanese fast food chain Yoshinoya, famous for its "gyudon" beef bowls, stresses that it "absolutely does not use rice or other ingredients from Japan's Fukushima Prefecture," as seen in this photo taken on March 27, 2014. Rumors spread in Hong Kong that the restaurant's food is carcinogenic after Yoshinoya Holdings Co. in Japan announced in October 2013 it will grow rice and vegetables in a joint venture with farmers in Fukushima, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex.