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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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Waste from 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 a port in Aomori Prefecture for storage on Feb. 27, 2013. The waste, produced from fuel used at plants operated by Chubu Electric Power Co., Chugoku Electric Power Co. and Kansai Electric Power Co., will be stored at a facility of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture.

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Radioactive waste returned to Japan

AOMORI, Japan - A container holding reprocessed spent nuclear fuel is unloaded from a transport ship that arrived at a port in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2011. The radioactive waste was returned to Japan after processing in Britain, in the course of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel at Japanese reactors.

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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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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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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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Spent nuke fuel taken aboard ship in Fukushima Pref.

TOMIOKA, Japan - About 13 tons of spent nuclear fuel are taken aboard the 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 17 to be carried to Aomori Prefecture to be reprocessed in the first shipment of its kind in Japan. The ship picked up the spent nuclear fuel stored in a reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 2 plant. The ship will carry a total of 24 tons of such fuel to Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, where the cargo will be off-loaded to await reprocessing.

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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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Radioactive waste returned to Japan

AOMORI, Japan - A container holding reprocessed spent nuclear fuel is unloaded from a transport ship that arrived at a port in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2011. The radioactive waste was returned to Japan after processing in Britain, in the course of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel at Japanese reactors. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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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Spent nuke fuel taken aboard ship in Fukushima Pref.

TOMIOKA, Japan - About 13 tons of spent nuclear fuel are taken aboard the 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 17 to be carried to Aomori Prefecture to be reprocessed in the first shipment of its kind in Japan. The ship picked up the spent nuclear fuel stored in a reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 2 plant. The ship will carry a total of 24 tons of such fuel to Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, where the cargo will be off-loaded to await reprocessing.

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Nuclear waste ship arrives at Aomori port.

A vessel containing nuclear waste in the form of 40 rods of vitrified blocks is unloaded from the 5,000-ton British ship Pacific Swan, which arrived at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, some 700 kilometers north of Tokyo, on April 15. The high-level radioactive waste was reprocessed in France.