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Radiation leak at Ibaraki laboratory

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Photo shows the inside of a nuclear physics laboratory of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 25, 2013, where radioactive substances were released into the atmosphere outside the controlled area two days earlier. The JAEA said May 25 six people were confirmed to have been exposed to radiation and a quick checkup suggested possible exposure of 24 others.

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Radiation leak at Ibaraki laboratory

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 25, 2013, shows a nuclear physics laboratory (front) of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where radioactive substances were released into the atmosphere outside the controlled area two days earlier. The JAEA said May 25 six people were confirmed to have been exposed to radiation and a quick checkup suggested possible exposure of 24 others.

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JAEA President Suzuki in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Atsuyuki Suzuki, president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011.

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New robot for Fukushima operation

MITO, Japan - Nuclear disaster operation robot ''JAEA-3'' is shown to reporters at the Nuclear Emergency Assistance & Training Center in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. The remote-controlled robot will be used to measure radiation levels at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture.

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JAEA's new Pres. Kodama gives press conference

Toshio Kodama, new president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, gives a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2015. He did not clearly state the JAEA's target date for the Nuclear Regulatory Authority's lifting of a de facto ban on the troubled prototype fast breeder reactor Monju in Fukui Prefecture, saying it is a matter to be decided by the NRA. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JAEA chief briefs science minister on plan to improve Monju safety

Shojiro Matsuura (L), president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, reports to science and technology minister Hakubun Shimomura on a plan to improve the safety of its Monju prototype fast breeder reactor at the latter's office in Tokyo on March 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JAEA chief questioned on stalled fast-breeder reactor project

Toshio Kodama, president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, responds in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2015, to questioning by the Nuclear Regulation Authority concerning a series of safety management problems at the JAEA-built Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New robot for Fukushima operation

MITO, Japan - Nuclear disaster operation robot ''JAEA-3'' is shown to reporters at the Nuclear Emergency Assistance & Training Center in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 21, 2011. The remote-controlled robot will be used to measure radiation levels at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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JAEA President Suzuki in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Atsuyuki Suzuki, president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Reactor container at Joyo plant opened to media

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency opens the inside of the reactor container at its Joyo experimental fast reactor in Oarai, northeast of Tokyo, to the media on Dec. 5, 2016. The government is looking to the Joyo facility to continue development of fast reactors given that the JAEA's Monju prototype fast breeder reactor, which was intended to play a key role in the process, is on the verge of being scrapped. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo