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JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

A ceremony to decommission the Japan Coast Guard's oldest active patrol vessel, the icebreaker Soya, is held in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2025, after 47 years in operation. The 3,100-ton ship traveled about 1.91 million kilometers, equivalent to 48 trips around the Earth, and rescued over 1,450 people in more than 600 shipwreck cases.

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JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

A ceremony to decommission the Japan Coast Guard's oldest active patrol vessel, the icebreaker Soya, is held in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2025, after 47 years in operation. The 3,100-ton ship traveled about 1.91 million kilometers, equivalent to 48 trips around the Earth, and rescued over 1,450 people in more than 600 shipwreck cases.

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JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

The icebreaker Soya's logo is painted over as a ceremony to decommission the ship, the Japan Coast Guard's oldest active patrol vessel, is held in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2025, after 47 years in operation. The 3,100-ton ship traveled about 1.91 million kilometers, equivalent to 48 trips around the Earth, and rescued over 1,450 people in more than 600 shipwreck cases.

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JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

A ceremony to decommission the Japan Coast Guard's oldest active patrol vessel, the icebreaker Soya, is held in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2025, after 47 years in operation. The 3,100-ton ship traveled about 1.91 million kilometers, equivalent to 48 trips around the Earth, and rescued over 1,450 people in more than 600 shipwreck cases.

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JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

A ceremony to decommission the Japan Coast Guard's oldest active patrol vessel, the icebreaker Soya, is held in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 12, 2025, after 47 years in operation. The 3,100-ton ship traveled about 1.91 million kilometers, equivalent to 48 trips around the Earth, and rescued over 1,450 people in more than 600 shipwreck cases.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Work is underway to decommission the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, seen from the shore of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on March 10, 2025, the eve of the 14th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that devastated northeastern Japan.

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Fukui Gov. Nishikawa rejects Monju decommission plan

FUKUI, Japan, Dec. 21 Kyodo - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa attends a meeting with the central government in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2016. Nishikawa refused to accept the government plan to decommission the Monju fast-breeder reactor in the Sea of Japan coastal prefecture.

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Fate of aged nuke reactors up to utilities

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Yagi, head of the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, says at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2014, that member utilities will make their own decisions on whether to decommission aged nuclear power reactors.

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Hamaoka nuke power plant transformer unveiled

OMAEZAKI, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. shows the press a main electrical transformer at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 4, 2014, during work to decommission two of its five light-water reactors.

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Hamaoka nuke power plant reactors shown to press

OMAEZAKI, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. shows the press two reactor buildings at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 4, 2014, as work is in progress to decommission the light-water reactors.

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Tanks set to be removed from Hamaoka nuke power plant

OMAEZAKI, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. shows the press two chemical tanks near one of two reactors at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 4, 2014, ahead of their removal as part of work to decommission the light-water reactors.

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Building R&D center toward Fukushima plant decommission

NARAHA, Japan - Japan Atomic Energy Agency holds a groundbreaking ceremony in Naraha town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014, for a research and development center toward decommissioning Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

TOKYO, Japan - Members (R) of a Fukushima prefectural government panel monitor the transfer of radioactive water from an underground reservoir to tanks at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 24, 2013. Disposal of massive amounts of radioactive water is crucial to the decommission work on the plant. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a temporary storage facility for dry casks containing spent fuel, which has been put to use at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013. Operations are under way to decommission the crippled plant following a nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the fifth floor of the building housing the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013. Under the steel sheets (C) is the spent fuel pool. At top left is the building housing the No. 3 reactor. Operations are under way to decommission the crippled plant following a nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

SENDAI, Japan - An official explains the use of equipment inside a room for water treatment control at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013. Operations are under way to decommission the crippled plant following a nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the inside of the building housing the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013. Operations are under way to decommission the crippled plant following a nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the inside of multi-nuclide removal equipment called ALPS at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013. Operations are under way to decommission the crippled plant following a nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the central monitoring room in a building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013. Operations are under way to decommission the crippled plant following a nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows a heavy machinery remote-control room at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on April 4, 2013. Operations are under way to decommission the crippled plant following a nuclear crisis triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers at the No. 4 (R) and No. 3 (L back) reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows tanks for storing water contaminated by radioactive material at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows a facility under construction to remove around 60 types of nuclides from water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows wrecked vehicles, swept away by a tsunami and left as debris on the sea side of the No. 4 reactor turbine building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

NARAHA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers waiting at the J-Village outpost in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, for vehicles to carry them to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the northeastern Japan prefecture. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows huge tanks for storing water contaminated by radioactive material at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) and a facility (R) under construction to remove spent fuel from the pool at the reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the common spent-fuel pool of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - Takeshi Takahashi, chief of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, explains the work to remove spent fuel from the pool of the No. 4 reactor building at the plant on March 1, 2013. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows huge tanks for storing water contaminated by radioactive material at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)

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IAEA chief speaks on Fukushima plant

VIENNA, Austria - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on Feb. 21, 2013. Amano said the IAEA is planning to propose an international undertaking to decommission reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, a challenge that will need to be tackled in full swing in the years to come.

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Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Shizuoka Governor Yoshinobu Ishikawa (L) receives a report from Toshio Mita, president of Chubu Electric Power Co., at the prefectural government office on Dec. 22. Chubu Electric decided to decommission two old reactors at the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, and to build a new reactor there.

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Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo taken in July 2007 shows the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. The power company decided on Dec. 22 to decommission the old reactors and to build a new reactor there.

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Kashiwazaki Mayor Sakurai receives a proposal from TEPCO to decommission the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station.

Masahiro Sakurai, the mayor of Kashiwazaki City in Niigata Prefecture, said on April 19 that the decommissioning plan for the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station submitted by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings, Inc. In August, the company announced its intention to decide on a policy of decommissioning one or more nuclear reactors within five years if it were to resume operations of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa No. 6 and No. 7 reactors and secure a non-fossil power source ratio of more than 40%, combining renewable energy and nuclear power. Although the reactors passed the government's safety inspection in December 2017, Niigata Governor Hideyo Hanazumi has said that he will not discuss restarting the reactors until the results of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Verification Commission's review are available. Kashiwazaki City Mayor Sakurai and TEPCO HD President Kobayakawa at Kashiwazaki City Hall on November 19, 2019, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo taken in July 2007 shows the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture. The power company decided on Dec. 22 to decommission the old reactors and to build a new reactor there. (Kyodo)

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Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Shizuoka Governor Yoshinobu Ishikawa (L) receives a report from Toshio Mita, president of Chubu Electric Power Co., at the prefectural government office on Dec. 22. Chubu Electric decided to decommission two old reactors at the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, and to build a new reactor there. (Kyodo)

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Tsuruga plant's No. 1 unit to be decommissioned

File photo taken May 2013 shows the Tsuruga nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor (front) in the central Japan city of Tsuruga. Japan Atomic Power Co. decided on March 17, 2015, to decommission it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsuruga plant's No. 1 unit to be decommissioned

File photo taken May 2013 shows the Tsuruga nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor (front) in the central Japan city of Tsuruga. Japan Atomic Power Co. decided on March 17, 2015, to decommission it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Germany looks to export reactor decommissioning technologies

German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Berlin on April 27, 2016. Hendricks said Germany may become an exporter of technologies to decommission reactors in the future given the experience it has gained under its policy to move away from nuclear energy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Decommissioning of Ikata plant sought

People call on Shikoku Electric Power Co. to decommission its Ikata nuclear power plant on June 25, 2015, in the southwestern Japan city of Takamatsu, as the utility held a general shareholders' meeting. A reactor at Ikata obtained approval of the nuclear regulator for its enhanced safety measures, clearing a major hurdle toward its resumption. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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KEPCO decides to decommission 2 Mihama units

File photo taken May 2013 shows the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Mihama nuclear power station in the central Japan town of Mihama. Its operator Kansai Electric Power Co. decided on March 17, 2015, to decommission the two units, which have been operating for more than 40 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High radiation levels obstruct plant decommission work

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No. 3, 2 and 1 reactor buildings (from R) in Fukushima Prefecture are pictured on Feb. 25, 2015. Radiation levels especially around the reactors are still high, posing problems for the decommissioning work of the plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photos from Fukushima nuclear plant

Photo shows (from R) Tokyo Electric Co.'s No. 3, 2, 1 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi complex in the town of Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 26, 2015. Work to decommission the reactors, which is expected to take up to 40 years, has progressed over the past year ahead of the fourth anniversary of the start of the Fukushima nuclear crisis on March 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Monju nuclear reactor in Japan

File photo taken May 18, 2017, shows the Monju prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast. The Japanese government has decided to decommission the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Futaba town mayor hands petition to TEPCO representative

Fukushima Prefecture's Futaba town Mayor Shiro Izawa (R) hands a petition regarding issues including the decommission of the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the prefecture to Yoshiyuki Ishizaki, representative of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Revitalization Headquarters, on April 22, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hamaoka nuke power plant reactors shown to press

OMAEZAKI, Japan - Chubu Electric Power Co. shows the press two reactor buildings at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 4, 2014, as work is in progress to decommission the light-water reactors. (Kyodo)

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Building R&D center toward Fukushima plant decommission

NARAHA, Japan - Japan Atomic Energy Agency holds a groundbreaking ceremony in Naraha town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014, for a research and development center toward decommissioning Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant

Photo taken Feb. 13, 2019, shows work continuing to decommission the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant hit by the earthquake-tsunami disaster in 2011. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chubu Electric shareholder meeting

A man holds a sign that reads "Decommission Hamaoka nuclear plant" near the venue for a shareholder meeting of Chubu Electric Power Co. in Nagoya on June 25, 2020. Nine major Japanese power companies with nuclear facilities, including Chubu Electric, held their shareholder meeting the same day, all facing shareholder proposals that they abandon nuclear power. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

JCG's oldest patrol boat retires

14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Fukui Gov. Nishikawa rejects Monju decommission plan

Fate of aged nuke reactors up to utilities

Hamaoka nuke power plant transformer unveiled

Hamaoka nuke power plant reactors shown to press

Tanks set to be removed from Hamaoka nuke power plant

Building R&amp;D center toward Fukushima plant decommission

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

Fukushima Daiichi plant

IAEA chief speaks on Fukushima plant

Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

Kashiwazaki Mayor Sakurai receives a proposal from TEPCO to decommission the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station.

Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

Chubu Electric decides to demolish 2 nuclear reactors

Tsuruga plant's No. 1 unit to be decommissioned

Tsuruga plant's No. 1 unit to be decommissioned

Germany looks to export reactor decommissioning technologies

Decommissioning of Ikata plant sought

KEPCO decides to decommission 2 Mihama units

High radiation levels obstruct plant decommission work

Photos from Fukushima nuclear plant

Monju nuclear reactor in Japan

Futaba town mayor hands petition to TEPCO representative

Hamaoka nuke power plant reactors shown to press

Building R&D center toward Fukushima plant decommission

Crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant

Chubu Electric shareholder meeting

Building R&D center toward Fukushima plant decommission