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Buses carry workers for nuke fuel-reprocessing plant

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. workers commute by bus to and from a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant (rear) under construction in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 30, 2014.

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Start of nuke fuel-reprocessing plant delayed again

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. Senior Executive Vice President Junichi Ishihara (rear R) conveys to Susumu Hashimoto (foreground), deputy in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 30, 2014, a plan to push back the inauguration date for a nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant to March 2016, the 22nd delay.

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Protests against nuclear facilities in Aomori Pref.

AOMORI, Japan - People protest against the construction of the Electric Power Development Company's Oma nuclear power plant in Oma, and against putting into operation the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, both in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Citizens against nuclear facilities in Aomori Pref.

AOMORI, Japan - Livestock farmer Masami Yoshizawa speaks at a citizens' meeting on Oct. 18, 2014, in Aomori to protest against the construction of the Electric Power Development Company's Oma nuclear power plant in Oma, and against putting into operation the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, both in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Japan, U.S. conduct joint rescue drill in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Soldiers of U.S. Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, and local Japanese firefighters carry "injured" people at the port of Mutsuogawara in the prefecture's Rokkasho village on Aug, 19, 2014, during a joint drill on the assumption that an F-16 fighter of the base crashed, injuring 11 people. Japan Coast Guard members and local Japanese police also took part.

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Triage decision in Japan-U.S. joint drill

AOMORI, Japan - Soldiers of U.S. Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, and local Japanese firefighters simulate the confirmation of a triage decision to determine the priority of patients for treatment based on the severity of their conditions during their joint drill at the port of Mutsuogawara in the prefecture's Rokkasho village on Aug. 19, 2014.

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NRA's Shimazaki inspects Shimokita Peninsula

AOMORI, Japan - Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki (L) is briefed about an observation ship's recording device for underground structure assessment in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on May 12, 2014, during his inspection of sites for underground structure investigation on Shimokita Peninsula conducted by the secretariat of the authority.

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NRA's Shimazaki inspects Shimokita Peninsula

AOMORI, Japan - Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki (R) aboard an observation ship is briefed about equipment for underground structure assessment in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on May 12, 2014, during his inspection of sites for underground structure investigation on Shimokita Peninsula conducted by the secretariat of the authority.

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Central control room of Japan's nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant

ROKKASHO, Japan - The central control room of Japan's first spent nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant under construction by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is shown in this file photo taken on April 16, 2014.

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Radioactive waste stored at nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant

ROKKASHO, Japan - High-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants is stored and monitored at a facility in the premises of Japan's first spent nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant under construction by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as shown in this file photo taken on April 16, 2014.

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Central control room of Japan's nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant

ROKKASHO, Japan - The central control room of Japan's first spent nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant under construction by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is shown in this file photo taken on April 16, 2014.

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Radioactive waste stored at nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant

ROKKASHO, Japan - Low-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants is stored in special containers in the premises of Japan's first spent nuclear fuel-reprocessing plant under construction by Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, as shown in this file photo taken on April 16, 2014.

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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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Water cannon at nuclear facility

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. shows reporters a large water cannon for use in case of an accident at its nuclear fuel cycle facility in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 13, 2014.

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Water cannon at nuclear facility

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. shows reporters a large water cannon for use in case of an accident at its nuclear fuel cycle facility in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 13, 2014.

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Fuel reprocessing plant

TOKYO, Japan - A June 2012 photo shows the spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. The operator applied on Jan. 7, 2014, for a state safety assessment of the plant to put it onstream.

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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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Japan Nuclear Fuel unveils plutonium fuel plant

ROKKASHO, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. unveils to reporters its plant for producing so-called MOX nuclear fuel, under construction in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture on Nov. 1, 2012.

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Japan Nuclear Fuel unveils plutonium fuel plant

ROKKASHO, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. unveils to reporters its plant for producing so-called MOX nuclear fuel, under construction in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture on Nov. 1, 2012.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2012 shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Rokkasho

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken June 15, 2012, shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture.

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Test to vitrify radioactive liquid waste resumes

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on June 18, 2012. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. said it has resumed a test to vitrify high-level radioactive liquid waste at the plant.

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Test to vitrify radioactive liquid waste resumes

SENDAI, Japan - Photo on June 15, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. said on June 18, 2012, it has resumed a test to vitrify high-level radioactive liquid waste at the plant.

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Test to vitrify radioactive liquid waste resumes

SENDAI, Japan - Photo on June 15, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. said on June 18, 2012, it has resumed a test to vitrify high-level radioactive liquid waste at the plant.

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Test to vitrify radioactive liquid waste resumes

SENDAI, Japan - Photo on June 15, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. said on June 18, 2012, it has resumed a test to vitrify high-level radioactive liquid waste at the plant.

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Radioactive waste returned to Japan

ROKKASHO VILLAGE, Japan - Trucks transport metal containers holding high-level radioactive vitrified waste to a storage facility of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on the northern tip of Honshu, 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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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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Japan's 1st MOX plant

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. Executive Vice President Koichi Ikeda (R) orders a loading shovel to start operations during a groundbreaking ceremony for Japan's first commercial plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel, an integral part of the nation's nuclear fuel cycle policy, in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Oct. 28, 2010.

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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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French PM Fillon visits Japanese nuclear reprocessing facility

AOMORI, Japan - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (L) and Japanese energy minister Akira Amari (R) attend a news conference in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture on April 12 after visiting a reprocessing facility for spent nuclear fuel in the village.

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French PM Fillon visits Japanese nuclear reprocessing facility

AOMORI, Japan - French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (2nd from R), together with Japanese energy minister Akira Amari (3rd from R), visits a reprocessing facility for spent nuclear fuel in the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture on April 12.

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ITER-related research launched in Rokkasho, Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Toshio Okazaki, president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, speaking at a news conference in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture on July 3, after a facility to conduct research related to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor started operations in the village earlier in the day. Japan, the United States, the European Union, Russia, China, South Korea and India agreed in 2006 to build the world's first thermonuclear reactor in France, with Japan building two ITER-related facilities.

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High court upholds decision on uranium enrichment plant

SENDAI, Japan - Plaintiffs head for the Sendai High Court in Sendai's Aoba Ward on May 9 to hear the court's ruling in their lawsuit demanding a revocation of the government's approval for the operations of Japan's sole commercial uranium enrichment plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. The court upheld a lower court decision rejecting their demands.

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1st full-fledged nuclear reprocessing plant begins trial run

ROKKASHO, Japan - Local people rally in front of the main gate of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.'s spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on March 31 to protest against the plant's test run.

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1st full-fledged nuclear reprocessing plant begins trial run

ROKKASHO, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. holds a ceremony to launch a test run of its spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture.

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plant

AOMORI, Japan - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (L) receives a draft agreement from Rokkasho Village Mayor Kenji Fukukawa (right fore) on trial operations by the company of Japan's first spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village as Aomori Prefecture Governor Shingo Mimura (R back) witnesses at the prefectural government office on March 28.

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plant

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference on March 28 that Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing has cleared the last hurdle for a test run. He said the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture, which hosts the plant, will sign the necessary safety agreement for trial operations with plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.

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(3)Test run of nuke fuel reprocessing plant begins in Rokkasho

AOMORI, Japan - Protestors gather in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 21 as Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. began an initial test run of its nuclear fuel reprocessing plant there using depleted uranium.

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(2)Test run of nuke fuel reprocessing plant begins in Rokkasho

AOMORI, Japan - Staffers at Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.'s nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture shake hands on Dec. 21 as the company began an initial test run of the plant using depleted uranium. The move is a step forward in implementing Japan's nuclear fuel cycle policy.

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(1)Test run of nuke fuel reprocessing plant begins in Rokkasho

AOMORI, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 19 shows Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.'s nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture. The company began an initial test run of the plant on Dec. 21 using depleted uranium, a step forward in implementing Japan's nuclear fuel cycle policy.