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Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) on Dec. 2, 2025, visits an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for soil extracted during decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ahead of her first visit to the plant since taking office in October. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) on Dec. 2, 2025, visits an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for soil extracted during decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ahead of her first visit to the plant since taking office in October. (Pool photo)

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Interim storage facility near Fukushima plant

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (C) visits an interim facility in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2025, that is storing soil generated during decontamination efforts near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant co-hosted by the northeastern Japan town.

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Interim storage facility near Fukushima plant

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (2nd from R) visits an interim facility in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2025, that is storing soil generated during decontamination efforts near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant co-hosted by the northeastern Japan town.

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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.

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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.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel at interim storage facility

Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, being stored at Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co. showed the facility's interior to the media for the first time since receiving the container in September.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

MUTSU, Japan, Sept. 26 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Anti-nuclear protesters stage a rally as a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipping

People hold a rally near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 24, 2024, protesting the shipment of spent nuclear fuel from the plant to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipping

People hold a rally near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 24, 2024, protesting the shipment of spent nuclear fuel from the plant to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipped

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 24, 2024, shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel leaving Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on its way to be delivered to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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CORRECTED: TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipped

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 24, 2024, shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel leaving Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on its way to be delivered to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Environment minister Hosono in press conference

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Goshi Hosono speaks to reporters in the city of Fukushima on Dec. 28, 2011, after meeting with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato and other local leaders over decontamination efforts near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the meeting, Hosono formally asked that an interim storage facility for radioactively contaminated soil and other waste be built in Futaba county in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Fukushima's Okuma mayor OKs interim storage site

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe (R) of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, speaks in favor of building an interim nuclear waste storage facility in the northeastern Japan town at the outset of talks with the heads of the town's administrative districts held on Dec. 15, 2014, in Aizuwakamatsu where the town hall is temporarily located.

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10 years after March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo taken Feb. 24, 2021, at an interim storage facility in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Futaba, northeastern Japan, shows black bags containing contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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Interim storage for Fukushima contaminated waste

Photo taken Feb. 24, 2021, shows an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Interim storage for Fukushima contaminated waste

Photo taken Feb. 24, 2021, shows an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Interim storage for Fukushima contaminated waste

Photo taken Feb. 24, 2021, shows an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Interim storage for Fukushima contaminated waste

Photo taken Feb. 24, 2021, shows an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant can be seen in the back.

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Interim storage for Fukushima contaminated waste

Photo taken Feb. 24, 2021, shows an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant can be seen in the back.

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Subcontractors take rake-offs from decontamination workers in Fukushima

Photo taken in October 2015 shows an interim storage facility for radioactive waste collected from decontamination work in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture. Multiple subcontractors get rake-offs from people dispatched to do such work in the northeastern Japanese prefecture, according to local police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Truck carries waste from decontamination work in Fukushima

A truck transports radioactive waste left after decontamination work in Asakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, to an interim storage facility elsewhere in the northeastern Japanese prefecture under a pilot transportation project launched as part of efforts for reconstruction from the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Waste from decontamination work loaded onto truck in Fukushima

Workers load radioactive waste left after decontamination work onto a truck in Asakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2015, before shipment to an interim storage facility elsewhere in the northeastern Japanese prefecture under a pilot transportation project launched as part of efforts for reconstruction from the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima's Okuma mayor OKs interim storage site

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe (R) of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, speaks in favor of building an interim nuclear waste storage facility in the northeastern Japan town at the outset of talks with the heads of the town's administrative districts held on Dec. 15, 2014, in Aizuwakamatsu where the town hall is temporarily located. (Kyodo)

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Environment minister Hosono in press conference

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Goshi Hosono speaks to reporters in the city of Fukushima on Dec. 28, 2011, after meeting with Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato and other local leaders over decontamination efforts near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the meeting, Hosono formally asked that an interim storage facility for radioactively contaminated soil and other waste be built in Futaba county in Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Interim storage for Fukushima contaminated waste

Photo taken Feb. 20, 2020, shows an interim storage facility in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Interim storage for Fukushima contaminated waste

Photo taken Feb. 20, 2020, shows bags containing contaminated soil collected from decontamination work following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, at an interim storage facility in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo