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S. Korea's nuclear safety delegation to visit Fukushima

South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission chief Yoo Guk Hee (C) meets the press at Incheon airport near Seoul on May 21, 2023, before leaving for Japan to inspect the Fukushima Daiichi plant with 20 experts to assess the safety of Japan's planned release of treated radioactive water into the sea.

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Fukui prefectural nuke safety panel checks Takahama plant

FUKUI, Japan - Members of the Fukui prefectural government's nuclear safety commission examine Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, on June 9, 2014.

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Nuclear expert Klein

TOKYO, Japan - Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Dale Klein, who heads a supervisory panel tasked with overseeing Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s nuclear safety efforts, speaks at a meeting of the panel in Tokyo on May 1, 2014.

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Japan's two nuclear safety bodies to be scrapped

TOKYO, Japan - Nuclear Safety Commission Chairman Haruki Madarame speaks during the last meeting of the panel in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2012. The NSC and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Japan's key government entities that have been in charge of nuclear safety regulations, are set to be scrapped prior to the launch of a new regulatory authority.

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Fukui gov. visits Oi plant before decision on reactors' restart

OI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa (L) listens to a person from Kansai Electric Power Co. at the utility's nuclear power complex in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on June 12 2012. Nishikawa visited the complex to check on safety measures taken in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis as he is expected to endorse the restart of two idled reactors at the plant. To the right is Hideyuki Nakagawa, head of the nuclear safety commission set up by the prefectural government.

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Fukui governor likely to OK restart of reactors

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa (L) receives a report from Hideyuki Nakagawa, head of a local nuclear safety commission, at the prefectural government hall in Fukui on June 11, 2012. The governor is expected to endorse the restart of two idled reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in the prefecture as he was officially informed of the commission's conclusion that necessary safety measures have been taken.

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Nuclear accident probe panel meets with int'l experts

TOKYO, Japan - (From R) Richard Meserve, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Andre-Claude Lacoste, chairman of the French nuclear safety authority, Lars-Erik Holm, head of Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare and formerly chairman of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, and Chang Soon Heung, professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, attend a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2012. A government-appointed panel looking into the cause of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant started the two-day meeting the same day to seek advice from international experts about its ongoing investigation.

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011.

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011.

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Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) attends a meeting of a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on post-disaster restoration at the Diet building in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. On the front left is Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan. The government and the commission have been at odds over why the injection of seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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TEPCO press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Matsumoto, acting chief of the nuclear power department of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2011, about the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Goshi Hosono, a special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, said the same day that the news conferences held separately by TEPCO, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan over the crisis will be combined from April. 25.

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Tokaimura plant's conversion building inspected

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Members from the Nuclear Safety Commission's investigative committee, wearing protective clothing, on Nov. 23 inspect the JCO Co. uranium fuel processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, the site of Japan's worst nuclear accident in late September.

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Chain reaction halted, gov't commission says

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Tatsuya Murakami (C), village mayor of Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, also chairman of the disaster management headquarters dealing with Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident, talks to reporters at Tokaimura village office on Oct. 1. Murakami conveyed an Nuclear Safety Commission announcement that the nuclear chain reaction had been stopped as a result of removal of water coolant from pipes at the uranium processing plant where the accident took place.

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Kashiwazaki Mayor Sakurai receives a proposal from TEPCO to decommission the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station.

Masahiro Sakurai, the mayor of Kashiwazaki City in Niigata Prefecture, said on April 19 that the decommissioning plan for the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station submitted by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings, Inc. In August, the company announced its intention to decide on a policy of decommissioning one or more nuclear reactors within five years if it were to resume operations of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa No. 6 and No. 7 reactors and secure a non-fossil power source ratio of more than 40%, combining renewable energy and nuclear power. Although the reactors passed the government's safety inspection in December 2017, Niigata Governor Hideyo Hanazumi has said that he will not discuss restarting the reactors until the results of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Verification Commission's review are available. Kashiwazaki City Mayor Sakurai and TEPCO HD President Kobayakawa at Kashiwazaki City Hall on November 19, 2019, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Ex-NRC head Macfarlane speaks at Tokyo symposium

Allison Macfarlane, former chairwoman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, addresses the International Symposium on Nuclear Safety and Natural Disasters in Tokyo on May 21, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief U.S. nuke regulator inspects Takahama plant in western Japan

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Stephen Burns visits Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, on April 9, 2015, to inspect safety measures for its No.3 reactor. He told the press after the visit that he got impressed by measures to counter tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-NRC head Jaczko speaks on nuclear safety in Japanese parliament

Gregory Jaczko, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, speaks about nuclear safety in the Japanese parliament building in Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2015, with regard to Japan's plans to restart idled nuclear reactors. Jaczko was active NRC chief when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster occurred in northeastern Japan in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's chief nuclear regulator pledges to improve safety

Japan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Yoshiaki Oka speaks at the 59th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, on Sept. 14, 2015. Oka pledged to redouble efforts for improved safety of nuclear reactors taking lessons learned from the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Nuclear safety panel chief

TOKYO, Japan - Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on June 17, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Japan gov't, nuclear commission at odds

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) attends a meeting of a House of Representatives ad hoc committee on post-disaster restoration at the Diet building in Tokyo on May 23, 2011. On the front left is Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan. The government and the commission have been at odds over why the injection of seawater into the troubled No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Matsumoto, acting chief of the nuclear power department of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 21, 2011, about the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Goshi Hosono, a special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, said the same day that the news conferences held separately by TEPCO, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan over the crisis will be combined from April. 25. (Kyodo)

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Nuclear accident probe panel meets with int'l experts

TOKYO, Japan - (From R) Richard Meserve, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Andre-Claude Lacoste, chairman of the French nuclear safety authority, Lars-Erik Holm, head of Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare and formerly chairman of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, and Chang Soon Heung, professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, attend a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2012. A government-appointed panel looking into the cause of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant started the two-day meeting the same day to seek advice from international experts about its ongoing investigation. (Kyodo)

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Marta Novakova, Dana Drabova

Industry Minister Marta Novakova, left, and State Office for Nuclear Safety head Dana Drabova attend seminar on current state and future of Dukovany holds by Dukovany nuclear power plant's civic security commission in Valec, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2018. The new unit at Dukovany nuclear power plant should be built by a subsidiary of CEZ energy group, the plant's operator; and the state is ready to support the investment as next in line guarantor, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said. CEZ has said that its minor shareholders are against the construction. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Dana Drabova, Daniel Benes

State Office for Nuclear Safety head Dana Drabova, left, and CEZ CEO Daniel Benes attend seminar on current state and future of Dukovany holds by Dukovany nuclear power plant's civic security commission in Valec, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2018. The new unit at Dukovany nuclear power plant should be built by a subsidiary of CEZ energy group, the plant's operator; and the state is ready to support the investment as next in line guarantor, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said. CEZ has said that its minor shareholders are against the construction. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Andrej Babis, Dana Drabova, Daniel Benes

PM Andrej Babis (from left), State Office for Nuclear Safety head Dana Drabova and CEZ CEO Daniel Benes attend seminar on current state and future of Dukovany holds by Dukovany nuclear power plant's civic security commission in Valec, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2018. The new unit at Dukovany nuclear power plant should be built by a subsidiary of CEZ energy group, the plant's operator; and the state is ready to support the investment as next in line guarantor, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said. CEZ has said that its minor shareholders are against the construction. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Andrej Babis, Daniel Benes, Dana Drabova

PM Andrej Babis (from left), State Office for Nuclear Safety head Dana Drabova and CEZ CEO Daniel Benes attend seminar on current state and future of Dukovany holds by Dukovany nuclear power plant's civic security commission in Valec, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2018. The new unit at Dukovany nuclear power plant should be built by a subsidiary of CEZ energy group, the plant's operator; and the state is ready to support the investment as next in line guarantor, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said. CEZ has said that its minor shareholders are against the construction. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Andrej Babis, Dana Drabova, Marta Novakova, Ales John, Daniel Benes

Dukovany nuclear power plant's civic security commission chairman Ales John, from left, PM Andrej Babis, Industry Minister Marta Novakova, State Office for Nuclear Safety head Dana Drabova and CEZ CEO Daniel Benes attend seminar on current state and future of Dukovany holds by commission in Valec, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2018. The new unit at Dukovany nuclear power plant should be built by a subsidiary of CEZ energy group, the plant's operator; and the state is ready to support the investment as next in line guarantor, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said. CEZ has said that its minor shareholders are against the construction. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Dana Drabova, Daniel Benes

State Office for Nuclear Safety head Dana Drabova, left, and CEZ CEO Daniel Benes attend seminar on current state and future of Dukovany holds by Dukovany nuclear power plant's civic security commission in Valec, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2018. The new unit at Dukovany nuclear power plant should be built by a subsidiary of CEZ energy group, the plant's operator; and the state is ready to support the investment as next in line guarantor, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said. CEZ has said that its minor shareholders are against the construction. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Andrej Babis, Dana Drabova, Marta Novakova, Ales John

Dukovany nuclear power plant's civic security commission chairman Ales John, from left, PM Andrej Babis, Industry Minister Marta Novakova and State Office for Nuclear Safety head Dana Drabova attend seminar on current state and future of Dukovany holds by commission in Valec, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2018. The new unit at Dukovany nuclear power plant should be built by a subsidiary of CEZ energy group, the plant's operator; and the state is ready to support the investment as next in line guarantor, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said. CEZ has said that its minor shareholders are against the construction. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)

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Panel urges gov't bodies to conduct self-inspections

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Nuclear Safety Commission's investigative committee meeting in Tokyo on Dec. 24. The committee, tasked with investigating the cause of Japan's worst nuclear accident, released on the day a final report recommending the commission and other nuclear-related government bodies conduct self-inspections on their procedures.

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Chain reaction halted, gov't commission says

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Tatsuya Murakami (C), village mayor of Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, also chairman of the disaster management headquarters dealing with Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident, talks to reporters at Tokaimura village office on Oct. 1. Murakami conveyed an Nuclear Safety Commission announcement that the nuclear chain reaction had been stopped as a result of removal of water coolant from pipes at the uranium processing plant where the accident took place.

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Full exam of Fukui nuclear plant's cracked pipe begins

MITO, Japan - Three experts from Nuclear Safety Commission examine cracks in pipe at Nuclear Development Corp. on July 20 in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Full exam of Fukui nuclear plant's cracked pipe begins

MITO, Japan - Three experts from Nuclear Safety Commission examine cracks in pipe at Nuclear Development Corp. on July 20 in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.