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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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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Bags containing soil and other waste generated during decontamination work are seen in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, host to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Bags containing soil and other waste generated during decontamination work are seen in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, host to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Bags containing soil and other waste generated during decontamination work are seen in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, host to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

An off-limits area is seen behind a barricade in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Okuma, host of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Protest against Fukushima water release

People protest against the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea in the northeastern Japanese town of Okuma, which co-hosts the plant with Futaba town, on Aug. 24, 2023.

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Protest against Fukushima water release

People protest against the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea in the northeastern Japanese town of Okuma, which co-hosts the plant with Futaba town, on Aug. 24, 2023.

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Minister apologizes for remark on Fukushima nuclear soil storage

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara apologizes on June 23, 2014, in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, for a remark suggesting the issue of where to store contaminated soil from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a matter of money. He bowed to Okuma Mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe, whose town is one of the candidate sites for the construction of temporary storage facilities for the waste.

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Underground ice wall works at Fukushima plant

OKUMA, Japan - Wearing protective metal vests over radiation protection suits, workers engage in underground ice wall building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on June 20, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The No.1 reactor building is seen in the back.

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ALPS water treatment system at Fukushima plant

OKUMA, Japan - The multi-nuclide removal equipment (Advanced Liquid Processing System), a water decontamination system, at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is photographed on June 20, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Contaminated water management measure at Fukushima plant

OKUMA, Japan - The condition of the groundwater bypassing is displayed on the monitor in a remote monitoring room at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on June 20, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Measure against contaminated water in Fukushima plant

OKUMA, Japan - Tokyo Electronic Power Co. employees check the procedure to release groundwater into the sea before it seeps into contaminated area in a remote monitoring room at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on June 20, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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ALPS water treatment system at Fukushima plant

OKUMA, Japan - The multi-nuclide removal equipment (Advanced Liquid Processing System), a water decontamination system, at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is photographed on June 20, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Measure against contaminated water at Fukushima plant

OKUMA, Japan - Workers wearing a metal protective vest against radiation works to build an underground frozen soil wall at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on June 20, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Gov't to buy land around damaged Fukushima plant for waste storage

TOKYO, Japan - This aerial photo taken by a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 14, 2013, shows a coastal area in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, around the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. The government plans to acquire about 19 square kilometers of land chiefly around the plant to build facilities for the long-term storage of radioactive and other waste piling up in the decontamination process.

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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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NRA chief inspects Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Shunichi Tanaka (L), chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, delivers a pep talk in the emergency response room at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 12, 2014, during his visit. (Pool photo)

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NRA chief inspects Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Shunichi Tanaka (R, front), chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, walks by radioactive water tanks during his inspection at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 12, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Japanese high schooler at Fukushima festival in Paris

Paris, France - Asuka Endo (R), a student at Kaishi Kokusai High School of Niigata Prefecture who hails from the town of Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, talks with a visitor on Aug. 31, 2014, at a booth at a two-day cultural event in Paris titled "Ring of Tohoku Rebirth," an OECD project to help the 2011 earthquake-hit northeastern Japanese region get back on its feet. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also visited the event.

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Traditional dance shown for 1st time since disaster

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Boys perform the traditional "deer dance" of Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in Aizuwakamatsu on July 20, 2014, for the first time since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. As residents of Okuma are still staying at temporary housing in the Fukushima Prefecture city due to the mishap, performances of the 200-year-old dance have been disrupted.

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Traditional dance shown for 1st time since disaster

AIZUWAKAMATSU, Japan - Boys perform the traditional "deer dance" of Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in Aizuwakamatsu on July 20, 2014, for the first time since the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. As residents of Okuma are still staying at temporary housing in the Fukushima Prefecture city due to the mishap, performances of the 200-year-old dance have been disrupted.

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Workers around Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 reactor building

OKUMA, Japan - Workers undertake tasks around the No. 1 reactor building of the crippled-Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 20, 2014.

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Okuma mayor wants contaminated waste stored outside pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Toshitsuna Watanabe (2nd from R), mayor of Okuma Town and head of the Futaba area's town and village coalition in Fukushima Prefecture, asks Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (L) to build outside the prefecture final disposal facilities for waste generated from decontamination work following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on June 26, 2014.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits nuclear plant in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) and her son Jack Schlossberg (R) wearing protective suits and masks are briefed during their visit to the central control room for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 14, 2014. The plant was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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Groundwater bypass operation at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - A well for the so-called bypass operation to pump groundwater at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for release into the sea before it gets highly contaminated with radioactive substances is seen in this photo taken on April 15, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Workers decontaminate equipment at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Workers decontaminate equipment after removing fuel rods from the spent fuel pool inside the damaged No. 4 nuclear reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 15, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Welded tanks being built at Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Welded tanks are seen being built above ground at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 26, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Contaminated water leakage at Fukushima nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - A tank (upper C) storing contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is pictured on Feb. 26, 2014, in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Radioactive water leakage from the tank was found in February 2014. (Pool Photo)

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Scribbled reactor water levels at Fukushima control room

TOKYO, Japan - Water levels at a reactor just after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami remain scribbled on a control panel in the central control room of the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 26, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Scribbled water levels, times at Fukushima control room

TOKYO, Japan - Water levels at a reactor and corresponding times just after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami remain scribbled on a control panel in the central control room of the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 26, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima students seek life lessons in Marshall Islands

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2013 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (center, rear) and surrounding areas around the town of Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture.

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TEPCO transfers fuel rods

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 21, 2013, shows a container with 22 unused fuel assemblies being taken on a trailer from the spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor building to a building housing the common spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. transfers the first batch of fuel rod assemblies.

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TEPCO transfers fuel rods

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 21, 2013, shows a container with 22 unused fuel assemblies being carried on a trailer into a building housing the common spent-fuel pool after being taken from the spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. transfers the first batch of fuel rod assemblies.

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TEPCO transfers fuel rods

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 21, 2013, shows a container with 22 unused fuel assemblies being taken by a trailer from the spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor building (top) to a building housing the common spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. transfers the first batch of fuel rod assemblies.

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TEPCO transfers fuel rods

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 21, 2013, shows a container with 22 unused fuel assemblies being taken by a trailer from the spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor building to a building housing the common spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as its operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. transfers the first batch of fuel rod assemblies.

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TEPCO transfers fuel rods

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 21, 2013, shows the No. 4 reactor building (back) housing the spent fuel pool and a building housing the common spent-fuel pool at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled plant, transferred the same day the first batch of fuel rod assemblies taken from the No. 4 unit spent fuel pool to the building in the foreground that provides more stable storage conditions.

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Fukushima spent fuel removal

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2013, shows the No. 4 reactor building (back) and the building housing the common spent-fuel pool (front) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co. began preparation work for nuclear fuel removal at the reactor building the same day.

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Fuel removal from No. 4 unit to start Nov. 18

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Nov. 15 it plans to start removing spent nuclear fuel from the cooling pool at the No. 4 reactor building Nov. 18. (Pool photo)

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Fuel removal from No. 4 unit to start Nov. 18

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel on the fifth floor of the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Nov. 15 it plans to start removing the spent fuel from the pool at the No. 4 reactor building Nov. 18. (Pool photo)

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Test for Fukushima No. 4 unit fuel removal

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2013, shows the No. 4 reactor building (back) and the building housing the common spent-fuel pool (front) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co. conducted a test for nuclear fuel removal at the plant the same day.

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Test for Fukushima No. 4 unit fuel removal

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2013, shows the No. 4 reactor building (back) and the building housing the common spent-fuel pool (front) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co. conducted a test for nuclear fuel removal at the plant the same day.

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Test for Fukushima No. 4 unit fuel removal

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2013, shows a heavy vehicle pulling a container to transport fuel, which has arrived at the No. 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co. conducted a test for nuclear fuel removal at the plant the same day.

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Test for Fukushima No. 4 unit fuel removal

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2013, shows a heavy vehicle pulling a container to transport fuel, which has arrived at the No. 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co. conducted a test for nuclear fuel removal at the plant the same day.

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Fukushima nuclear plant

OKUMA, Japan - Panorama composed of nine photos shows the cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel in the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. invited journalists to the site ahead of the removal of nuclear fuel from the pool, expected to start later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant

OKUMA, Japan - Photo shows spent nuclear fuel in the cooling pool at the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. invited journalists to the site ahead of the removal of nuclear fuel from the pool, expected to start later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant

OKUMA, Japan - Photo shows the cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel in the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. invited journalists to the site ahead of the removal of nuclear fuel from the pool, expected to start later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant

OKUMA, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. invited journalists to the site ahead of the removal of spent nuclear fuel from the cooling pool in the building, expected to start later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant

OKUMA, Japan - Photo shows the cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel in the No. 4 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. invited journalists to the site ahead of the removal of nuclear fuel from the pool, expected to start later in the month. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima nuclear plant

OKUMA, Japan - Akira Ono, chief of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, answers reporters' questions in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 6, 2013. (Pool photo)