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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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U.S.-born woman looking for relatives of Japanese flag owner

AOMORI, Japan - U.S.-born Amy Yamamichi, a coordinator for international relations at Mutsu City Hall, holds a Japanese flag on which some 40 people's names are written, in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, in September 2014. She hopes to return the flag which must have been carried during WWII and was once held by her late grandfather to relatives of the original owner.

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Joint minesweeping drill with U.S. in northern Japan bay

AOMORI, Japan - An aircraft of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force drops an underwater mine into Mutsu Bay, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, on July 24, 2014, during a joint minesweeping drill with the U.S. Navy.

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Joint minesweeping drill with U.S. in northern Japan bay

AOMORI, Japan - Military vessels stay in line in Mutsu Bay, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, on July 24, 2014, during a joint minesweeping drill with the U.S. Navy.

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Joint minesweeping drill with U.S. in northern Japan bay

AOMORI, Japan - A diver of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force prepares to enter the water from a helicopter in Mutsu Bay, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, on July 24, 2014, during a joint underwater minesweeping drill with the U.S. Navy.

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Reprocessed spent nuclear fuel

AOMORI, Japan - Highly radioactive waste is unloaded from a vessel at Mutsu Ogawara port in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for storage on April 22, 2014. The vessel arrived earlier in the day from Britain, where spent nuclear fuel from Japanese power plants has been reprocessed.

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Reprocessed spent nuclear fuel

AOMORI, Japan - A ship carrying a cargo of high-level radioactive waste produced through reprocessing of spent Japanese nuclear fuel in Britain arrives at Mutsu Ogawara port in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for storage on April 22, 2014.

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MSDF helicopter crashes into sea off Aomori

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 15, 2012, shows the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Matsuyuki in Mutsu Bay in Aomori Prefecture. An MSDF patrol helicopter with seven crew members aboard crashed into the bay the same day after hitting the destroyer, leaving the captain of the aircraft missing.

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MSDF helicopter crashes into sea off Aomori

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 15, 2012, shows the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Matsuyuki in Mutsu Bay in Aomori Prefecture. An MSDF patrol helicopter with seven crew members aboard crashed into the bay the same day after hitting the destroyer, leaving the captain of the aircraft missing.

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MSDF helicopter crashes into sea off Aomori

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 15, 2012, shows the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Matsuyuki in Mutsu Bay in Aomori Prefecture. An MSDF patrol helicopter with seven crew members aboard crashed into the bay the same day after hitting the destroyer. Damage believed to have been caused by the helicopter hitting the vessel is seen around the hangar on the port side (C left).

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Nuclear fuel storage facility in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows a facility to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel under construction in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on April 5, 2012.

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Construction resumes on nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows construction of a facility to temporarily store the spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on March 16, 2012. Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co. said on the same day that it has resumed construction about a year after work was halted for safety checks in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Construction resumes on nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows construction of a facility to temporarily store the spent nuclear fuel in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on March 16, 2012. Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co. said on the same day that it has resumed construction about a year after work was halted for safety checks in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis.

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Cars trapped in snow in Aomori Pref.

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows cars stranded on a snowy road in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on the evening of Feb. 1, 2012.

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U.S. Navy ship in Aomori Pref.

AOMORI, Japan - Lieutenant Commander Todd Levant (R), skipper of the U.S. Navy's mines countermeasure ship USS Defender, attends a press conference at Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's Ominato base in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, on July 16, 2011. The Defender takes part in a Japan-U.S. joint exercise in Mutsu Bay.

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Reprocessed nuclear waste arrives in Japan from Britain

AOMORI, Japan - A shipping cask containing vitrified radioactive waste is lifted by crane from a freighter at Mutsu Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on March 9, 2010. The nuclear waste from fuel used in Japanese plants was transported back to Japan after being reprocessed in Britain, the first shipment of its kind to arrive from the country.

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Nuclear waste arrives in Japan from Britain

AOMORI, Japan - A freighter carrying high-level radioactive vitrified waste from Britain arrives at Mutsu Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on March 9, 2010. The shipment, which comprises of nuclear waste reprocessed in Britain from fuels used at Japanese plants, is the first of its kind coming from Britain back into Japan.

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4 bodies recovered from sunken boat off Aomori Pref.

AOMORI, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard on April 7 recovered a body from a sunken scallop fishing boat in Mutsu Bay off Aomori Prefecture and another three bodies from the seabed around the vessel. Relatives (two in center) of still missing fishermen are told by a rescuer (L, bottom) that three bodies had been found. Eight crew members aboard the 5.1-ton Nikko Maru went missing on April 5.

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Aomori gov. agrees to host nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference at his office on Oct. 19 on his government's acceptance of a plan by two energy companies to build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in the prefecture. Under the plan, Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Japan Atomic Power Co. will build a two-wing facility in the city of Mutsu in the northeastern Japan prefecture to temporarily keep up to 5,000 tons of spent fuel.

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(1)Rokkasho plant to use depleted uranium for tests

AOMORI, Japan - Depleted uranium is unloaded at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20 as Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. began moving it into a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village in preparation for a test operation starting Dec. 21. The test run is aimed at checking various operations and equipment performance prior to an ''active test'' using spent nuclear fuel, company officials said.

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(2)Rokkasho plant to use depleted uranium for tests

AOMORI, Japan - Depleted uranium is unloaded at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20 as Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. began moving it into a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village in preparation for a test operation starting Dec. 21. The test run is aimed at checking various operations and equipment performance prior to an ''active test'' using spent nuclear fuel, company officials said.

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Reprocessed nuclear waste arrives in Rokkasho from France

ROKKASHO, Japan - The British freighter Pacific Sandpiper arrives in Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan on Jan. 22. It was carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste reprocessed in France from spent nuclear fuel removed from nuclear reactors in Japan. The waste will be stored at a Rokkasho storage facility for 30-50 years.

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JAERI begins moving Mutsu's spent nuclear fuel

MUTSU, Japan - Spent nuclear fuel from the nuclear ship Mutsu is loaded aboard a ship at Sekinehama Port in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, June 27 to be moved to Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute's Tokai Research Establishment northeast of Tokyo.

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Processed nuclear waste arrives in Japan

ROKKASHO VILLAGE, Japan - The British cargo ship Pacific Swan carrying vitrified high-level radioactive waste is berthed at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Feb. 20. The cargo comprising eight containers of 192 vitrified blocks has been reprocessed by French nuclear fuel company COGEMA and is to be delivered to a storage facility in the village.

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Police carry fallen comrade's coffin

MUTSU, Japan - Police officers carry the coffin of a fellow officer from Mutsu police station, Aomori Prefecture, on June 29. Police Sgt. Katsuo Sato, 52, was stabbed to death June 28 by a motorist whom he had stopped in connection with a larceny report. Police arrested the suspect later the same day.

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People protest arrival of ship carrying spent N-fuel

AOMORI, Japan - People protest at a port in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 22 the arrival of a cargo ship carrying 13 tons of spent nuclear fuel. The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru arrived at Mutsu-Ogawara port near the village of Rokkasho where a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is being built. The spent nuclear fuel is from a nuclear power station run by Kyushu Electric Power Co. in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Collapsed bridge in Aomori

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows the site of a bridge collapse following heavy rain in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 11, 2021.

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Collapsed bridge in Aomori

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows the site of a bridge collapse following heavy rain in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 11, 2021.

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Collapsed bridge in Aomori

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows the site of a bridge collapse following heavy rain in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 11, 2021.

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Reprocessed nuclear waste arrives in Rokkasho from France

ROKKASHO, Japan - The British freighter Pacific Sandpiper arrives in Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan on Jan. 22. It was carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste reprocessed in France from spent nuclear fuel removed from nuclear reactors in Japan. The waste will be stored at a Rokkasho storage facility for 30-50 years.

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(2)Rokkasho plant to use depleted uranium for tests

AOMORI, Japan - Depleted uranium is unloaded at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20 as Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. began moving it into a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village in preparation for a test operation starting Dec. 21. The test run is aimed at checking various operations and equipment performance prior to an ''active test'' using spent nuclear fuel, company officials said. (Kyodo)

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(1)Rokkasho plant to use depleted uranium for tests

AOMORI, Japan - Depleted uranium is unloaded at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20 as Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. began moving it into a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village in preparation for a test operation starting Dec. 21. The test run is aimed at checking various operations and equipment performance prior to an ''active test'' using spent nuclear fuel, company officials said. (Kyodo)

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Aomori gov. agrees to host nuclear fuel storage facility

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Gov. Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference at his office on Oct. 19 on his government's acceptance of a plan by two energy companies to build a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in the prefecture. Under the plan, Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Japan Atomic Power Co. will build a two-wing facility in the city of Mutsu in the northeastern Japan prefecture to temporarily keep up to 5,000 tons of spent fuel. (Kyodo)