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Radiation leak at Ibaraki laboratory

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Photo shows the inside of a nuclear physics laboratory of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 25, 2013, where radioactive substances were released into the atmosphere outside the controlled area two days earlier. The JAEA said May 25 six people were confirmed to have been exposed to radiation and a quick checkup suggested possible exposure of 24 others.

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Radiation leak at Ibaraki laboratory

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on May 25, 2013, after radioactive substances were leaked at one of the agency's nuclear physics laboratories in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture two days earlier.

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Radiation leak at Ibaraki laboratory

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 25, 2013, shows a nuclear physics laboratory (front) of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where radioactive substances were released into the atmosphere outside the controlled area two days earlier. The JAEA said May 25 six people were confirmed to have been exposed to radiation and a quick checkup suggested possible exposure of 24 others.

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JCO, 6 employees found guilty over fatal nuke accident

MITO, Japan - Tomoyuki Inami (L), president of JCO Co., speaks at a press conference at the Mito District Court on March 3 after the local court found the company and six of its employees guilty of neglect leading to the deaths of two JCO workers in Japan's worst nuclear accident at its plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, in 1999.

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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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Shipment of nuclear fuel gets underway

TOKAIMURA, Japan - The first full-scale shipment of spent nuclear fuel to a reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture gets underway Dec. 15 with the loading on a cargo ship of about 11 tons of spent fuel from a nuclear power plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Hearing on new nuclear plant faces protest

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Residents opposing a Chugoku Electric Power Co. plan to build a nuclear power plant in Kaminoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, stop a van carrying supporters of the plan Oct. 31 before the central government held first public hearing on the plan in the town. The hearing is the first of its kind since Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident occurred at a uranium-processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture in September last year.

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Civic group members march in memory of Tokaimura victims

TOKYO, Japan - Antinuclear civic group members march in Tokyo on Sept. 30 in memory of two workers who died after Japan's worst nuclear accident in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, a year ago. On Sept. 30, 1999, an explosion occurred following a nuclear fission chain reaction at a uranium-processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. Two plant workers died months later.

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Ouchi's body brought out of hospital

TOKYO, Japan - The body of Hisashi Ouchi, the JCO Co. worker who died Dec. 21, 83 days after an accident at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, is brought out of the University of Tokyo Hospital on Dec. 22. Ouchi was exposed to a massive dose of radiation in the late September accident, Japan's worst nuclear disaster.

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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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JCO's president attends lower house meeting

TOKYO, Japan - JCO Co. President Hiroharu Kitani (L) and Kenzo Koshijima (R), head of the company's uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 19 attend as witnesses a science and technology committee meeting in the House of Representatives on Japan's worst nuclear accident at the plant on Sept. 30.

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17,000 residents checked for radiation in Tokaimura

TOKAIMURA, Japan - The last set of radiation checks is conducted on about 17,000 residents in the village of Tokaimura, about 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, and their possessions on Oct. 11, following Japan's Sept. 30 worst nuclear accident. The photo shows radiation checks of home-farming soil.

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Police raid JCO office over nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - Police prepare to raid JCO Co.'s nuclear fuel processing factory in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 6, after Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred there Sept. 30. Tokyo-based JCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., is suspected of professional negligence and violation of nuclear power plant regulations in the production of highly enriched uranium fuel.

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Tokaimura residents return home after evacuation order lifted

TOKAIMURA, Japan - About 120 residents in the village of Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, some 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, living within 35--meter radius of a uranium processing plant, where Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred Sept. 28, return home from a community center Oct. 2, after the government lifted an evacuation order for them.

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Shop closed

TOKAIMURA, Japan - A convenience store in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, remains closed on the morning of Oct. 1 following the radiation leak accident that occurred at a nearby uranium processing plant the previous day. The notice reads, ''We are temporarily closed due to the radiation leak accident.''

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3 hit by radiation in fire at Tokaimura nuclear plant

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Photo shows the nuclear fuel-related complex of JCO Co., in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where three workers were exposed to radiation after a fire broke out Sept. 30. The picture was taken after the fire was brought under control.