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Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi Brings Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain to Central Region

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in central Vietnam, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to regions already hit by recent floods. At least one person has died, several are missing, and homes and power lines were damaged. Flooding occurred in Dak Lak and thousands were evacuated as authorities remain on high alert for further floods and landslides.

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Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi Brings Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain to Central Region 2

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in central Vietnam, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to regions already hit by recent floods. At least one person has died, several are missing, and homes and power lines were damaged. Flooding occurred in Dak Lak and thousands were evacuated as authorities remain on high alert for further floods and landslides.

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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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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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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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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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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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(1)Rokkasho plant to use depleted uranium for tests

AOMORI, Japan - Depleted uranium is unloaded at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20 as Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. began moving it into a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village in preparation for a test operation starting Dec. 21. The test run is aimed at checking various operations and equipment performance prior to an ''active test'' using spent nuclear fuel, company officials said.

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(2)Rokkasho plant to use depleted uranium for tests

AOMORI, Japan - Depleted uranium is unloaded at Mutsu-Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 20 as Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. began moving it into a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village in preparation for a test operation starting Dec. 21. The test run is aimed at checking various operations and equipment performance prior to an ''active test'' using spent nuclear fuel, company officials said.

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Village mayor hangs himself after police questioning

AOMORI, Japan - File photo shows Hisashi Hashimoto, the mayor of the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, who was found May 18 to have hanged himself, after being questioned over bribery allegations by police the previous day.

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Citizens' suit against Rokkasho uranium plant dismissed

AOMORI, Japan - Local citizens carry a banner protesting a uranium enrichment plant in the village of Rokkasho. They were headed for the Aomori District Court in Aomori on March 15 to hear a ruling on their demand that the government revoke an approval for the plant on safety grounds. The court dismissed their demand.

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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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Probe into water leak at nuclear waste site begins in Rokkasho

ROKKASHO, Japan, Jan. 15 Kyodo - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. officials work on their terminals to check whether water is leaking from a pool at its nuclear waste storage facility in Rokkasho village, Aomori Prefecture on Jan. 15.

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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 nuclear fuel arrives in Rokkasho, Aomori Pref

ROKKASHO, Japan - Trailers carrying containers of spent nuclear fuel cross the national highway Jan. 24 on their way to a reprocessing plant under construction in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru, carrying some 11 tons of spent nuclear fuel, arrived at a port in the village earlier in the day.

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Spent nuclear fuel transported to reprocessing plant

ROKKASHO, Japan - Workers load containers of spent nuclear fuel from a cargo ship at a port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Dec. 19. The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru, carrying some 24 tons of spent fuel, arrived at the port earlier in the day to deliver the fuel to a reprocessing plant in the village, some 600 kilometers north of Tokyo.

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Spent nuclear fuel cargo arrives in Rokkasho

ROKKASHO, Japan - The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru (background), carrying about 24 tons of spent nuclear fuel, arrives at a port in Aomori Prefecrture on Dec. 19. The spent nuclear fuel will be taken to a reprocessing plant currently under construction in the village of Rokkasho, some 7 kilometers from the port.

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Ship departs Fukushima for Aomori with spent nuclear fuel

TOMIOKA, Japan - The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru, carrying 13 tons of spent nuclear fuel, leaves a port in Fukushima Prefecture on Dec. 18 to deliver its cargo to a reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture. The ship originated from Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, and was loaded with spend nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 2 plant. It is scheduled to arrive Dec. 19 in Mutsuogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture.

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Spent nuclear fuel leaves Tokaimura for Rokkasho

TOKAIMURA, Japan - The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru, carrying 11 tons of spent nuclear fuel, departs from a port at Tokaiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Dec. 16 for the village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture, marking Japan's first transport of such fuel after villagers agreed to its reprocessing. The cargo ship is transporting the fuel from the Tokai No. 2 reactor run by Japan Atomic Power Co. in Tokaimura, and is scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Rokkasho.

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People protest arrival of ship carrying spent N-fuel

AOMORI, Japan - People protest at a port in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 22 the arrival of a cargo ship carrying 13 tons of spent nuclear fuel. The 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru arrived at Mutsu-Ogawara port near the village of Rokkasho where a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is being built. The spent nuclear fuel is from a nuclear power station run by Kyushu Electric Power Co. in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.

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Spent N-fuel arrives in Aomori

ROKKASHOMURA, Japan - Spent nuclear fuel rods contained in the cylindrical vessels are being transferred to a storage pool at the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on Oct. 22. The spent fuel, from a nuclear power station run by Kyushu Electric Power Co. in Kagoshima Prefecture, arrived earlir in the day aboard the 4,913-ton Rokuei Maru.

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N-fuel carrying ship arrives at Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - People gather at a port in Aomori Prefecture on Sept. 3 to protest the arrival of a cargo ship carrying some 11 tons of spent nuclear fuel produced in Ehime Prefecture. The ship resumed shipments to a reprocessing plant being built in the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture after an 11-month suspension due to falsification of container data.

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Ship loaded with spent nuclear fuel leaves for Rokkasho

A ship loaded with spent nuclear fuel from a nuclear power plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, leaves Thursday Oct. 1 for a treatment plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. The 8 tons of spent nuclear fuel will be the first to arrive at the Rokkasho reprocessing facility in northeastern Japan since an agreement between the government of Aomori Prefecture, the village of Rokkasho, and facility operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. was finalized in late July.

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Probe into water leak at nuclear waste site begins in Rokkasho

ROKKASHO, Japan, Jan. 15 Kyodo - Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. officials work on their terminals to check whether water is leaking from a pool at its nuclear waste storage facility in Rokkasho village, Aomori Prefecture on Jan. 15.

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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.