Monju reactor's lab unused

Monju reactor's lab unused

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2011, shows the inside of a laboratory affiliated with the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor, in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture. The lab, designed to develop new nuclear fuel recycling technology, has been unused since its construction was suspended in 2000 following several accidents, prompting the Board of Audit of Japan to call on Nov. 14, 2011, for the operator of the Monju reactor to find a use for it. Some 83 billion yen has already been spent on it.

Monju reactor's lab unused

Monju reactor's lab unused

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2011, shows the inside of a laboratory affiliated with the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor, in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture. The lab, designed to develop new nuclear fuel recycling technology, has been unused since its construction was suspended in 2000 following several accidents, prompting the Board of Audit of Japan to call on Nov. 14, 2011, for the operator of the Monju reactor to find a use for it. Some 83 billion yen has already been spent on it.

Memorial for Austrian cable car fire on 10th anniversary

Memorial for Austrian cable car fire on 10th anniversary

KAPRUN, Austria - Hitoshi Narahara, father of one of the 10 Japanese victims in a cable car fire in Kaprun in November 2000 which killed 155 people, offers a prayer at a commemorative hall for the victims on Nov. 11, 2010, in the Austrian city. A memorial service was held near the railway bridge of the now-defunct cable car on the 10th anniversary of the accident.

Memorial for Austrian cable car fire on 10th anniversary

Memorial for Austrian cable car fire on 10th anniversary

KAPRUN, Austria - People gather at a memorial service on Nov. 11, 2010 in Kaprun, Austria, for the victims of a November 2000 cable car fire which killed 155 people. The railway bridge of the now-defunct cable car is captured in back of the crowds.

Memorial held for victims of Austrian cable car fire

Memorial held for victims of Austrian cable car fire

SALZBURG, Austria - Prayers are said at a mass at a Salzburg church on Nov. 10 in memory of the 155 victims who were killed in the Nov. 11, 2000 fire inside a 3.2-kilometer funicular train tunnel through the 3.203-meter Mt. Kitzsteinhorn. About 300 people, including Shigeharu Maruyama, minister at the Japanese Embassy in Vienna, attended the mass sponsored by the Salzburg state government in central Austria.