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Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) on Dec. 2, 2025, visits an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for soil extracted during decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ahead of her first visit to the plant since taking office in October. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) on Dec. 2, 2025, visits an interim storage facility in Okuma in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, for soil extracted during decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ahead of her first visit to the plant since taking office in October. (Pool photo)

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Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

File photo dated January 26, 2014 of a technician stands in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The Bushehr facility was the first civilian nuclear power plant built in the Middle East. Construction on the plant started in 1975 but stopped numerous times due to revolution and war. It finally opened in 2007 and started adding electricity to the national grid in 2011. Bushehr is one of a number of nuclear sites in Iran which have come under scrutiny of the international community and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to suspicions that Iran is trying to develop and nuclear weapon. Photo by Mohamad Ali Najib/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

File photo dated January 26, 2014 of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The Bushehr facility was the first civilian nuclear power plant built in the Middle East. Construction on the plant started in 1975 but stopped numerous times due to revolution and war. It finally opened in 2007 and started adding electricity to the national grid in 2011. Bushehr is one of a number of nuclear sites in Iran which have come under scrutiny of the international community and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to suspicions that Iran is trying to develop and nuclear weapon. Photo by Mohamad Ali Najib/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant - Iran

File photo dated January 26, 2014 of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. The Bushehr facility was the first civilian nuclear power plant built in the Middle East. Construction on the plant started in 1975 but stopped numerous times due to revolution and war. It finally opened in 2007 and started adding electricity to the national grid in 2011. Bushehr is one of a number of nuclear sites in Iran which have come under scrutiny of the international community and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) due to suspicions that Iran is trying to develop and nuclear weapon. Photo by Mohamad Ali Najib/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (front, R) visits an interim storage facility for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office on Dec. 14, 2024.

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Japan PM visits crippled Fukushima plant

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits an interim storage facility for the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima during his first visit to the plant since taking office on Dec. 14, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel at interim storage facility

Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, being stored at Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Recyclable-Fuel Storage Co. showed the facility's interior to the media for the first time since receiving the container in September.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

MUTSU, Japan, Sept. 26 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arriving at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture is unloaded from a vessel on Sept. 26, 2024, at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 26, 2024, shows a spent nuclear fuel container from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture being unloaded from a vessel at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

A vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO spent nuclear fuel sent to interim storage facility

Anti-nuclear protesters stage a rally as a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture arrives at a port near Japan's first interim storage facility in Mutsu in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 26, 2024.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipping

People hold a rally near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 24, 2024, protesting the shipment of spent nuclear fuel from the plant to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipping

People hold a rally near Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 24, 2024, protesting the shipment of spent nuclear fuel from the plant to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipped

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 24, 2024, shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel leaving Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on its way to be delivered to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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CORRECTED: TEPCO's spent nuclear fuel shipped

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 24, 2024, shows a vessel carrying spent nuclear fuel leaving Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, central Japan, on its way to be delivered to the country's first interim storage facility in Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Blinken urges Israeli-Palestinian calm as violence flares

STORY: Blinken urges Israeli-Palestinian calm as violence flares DATELINE: Jan. 31, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:54 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ZHANG TIANLANG, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHANG TIANLANG, Xinhua correspondent "U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Monday for a visit, during which he met with Israeli prime minister, foreign minister and president. The visit comes amid a new round of tensions between Israel and Palestine over the past few days. Upon his arrival, Blinken urged both sides to maintain calm and stop the violence. During the visit, Blinken also discussed with Israeli officials such issues as the normalization of ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia and the Iranian nuclear facility." As part of his three-leg Middle East tour, Blinken arrived in Israel after visiting Egypt. This was his first meetin

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

MOTOMIYA, Japan, Feb. 28 Kyodo - Britain's Prince William spends time with children at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Local city assembly OKs restart of nuclear plant

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Hideo Iwakiri (C), the mayor of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks at a session of the city assembly on Oct. 28, 2014, after it approved restarting the two-reactor Sendai nuclear power plant in the southwestern Japanese city. The plant in September became the first nuclear facility to meet Japan's stricter safety requirements following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan.

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Local city assembly OKs restart of nuclear plant

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - The city assembly of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture convenes on Oct. 28, 2014, to determine whether to approve restarting the two-reactor Sendai nuclear power plant in the southwestern Japanese city. The plant in September became the first nuclear facility to meet Japan's stricter safety requirements following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan.

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Nuke regulator inspects decommissioned Tokai power plant

MITO, Japan - Satoru Tanaka (R), a commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, inspects a facility at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 21, 2014. The Tokai plant is the first commercial nuclear reactor to be decommissioned in Japan.

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Japan nuclear plant clears safety hurdle toward restarting

TOKYO, Japan - Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2014, after the NRA approved a draft report required to resume the operations of two reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture. The reactors are expected to become the first nuclear facility to restart under new safety standards introduced following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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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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Tomari nuclear plant spent fuel pool shown to press

SAPPORO, Japan - The spent fuel pool at the No. 3 reactor of the Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, is shown to the press on March 12, 2014. It was the first time for Hokkaido Electric Power Co. to show the facility to the media since September 2008, when it was still under construction.

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Hokkaido's Tomari reactor containment vessel shown to press

SAPPORO, Japan - Circular pipes of a cooling system set up on the upper part of a containment vessel of the No. 3 reactor at the Tomari nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido are shown to the press on March 12, 2014. It was the first time Hokkaido Electric Power Co. had revealed the facility to the media since September 2008, when it was still under construction.

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Residents of town near Fukushima Daiichi return home

TAMURA, Japan - Evacuees from the town of Okuma, where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is partially located, put on radiation protection suits to prepare for a brief visit home on June 4, 2011, in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. The residents living within 7 to 10 kilometers from the facility returned home briefly for the first time since being forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks at the plant, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant

BUSHEHR, Iran - People walk by Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr on Aug. 21, 2010. The operator brought fuel rods into the facility while showing part of the building to foreign media the same day.

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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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Iran says produces more 60-pct enriched uranium in response to IAEA resolution

STORY: Iran says produces more 60-pct enriched uranium in response to IAEA resolution DATELINE: Nov. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:19 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Iran's centrifuges (file) STORYLINE: Iran said on Tuesday that it has started to produce more 60-percent enriched uranium as part of its retaliatory measures against a recent anti-Iran resolution passed by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This is the first time that Iran has begun enriching uranium to 60-percent purity at the underground Fordow nuclear plant located near the northern city of Qom, according to a statement released by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on its website. The old centrifuges at Fordow are also being replaced with modern IR-6 ones, the AEOI said. Meanwhile, the 60-percent uranium enrichment continues at the Natanz nuclear facility in central Iran, the statement noted. Last week, IAEA's Board of Governors passed the resolution proposed by the U

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (far L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center L) are welcomed at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (C) talks to a boy at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (L front) receives a letter from a girl when visiting an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (behind him) on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (2nd from L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) watch children bounce on a trampoline at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nuke power plant in southern Japan to restart reactor in late July

File photo taken in October 2014 shows the Nos. 1 (L) and 2 rectors of Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Having cleared the Nuclear Regulation Authority's safety screening, the company plans to reactivate the No. 1 unit in late July 2015, making it likely to become the first nuclear facility in Japan to go back online under a set of tightened regulations imposed following the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant

BUSHEHR, Iran - People walk by Iran's first nuclear power plant in Bushehr on Aug. 21, 2010. The operator brought fuel rods into the facility while showing part of the building to foreign media the same day. (Kyodo)

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Residents of town near Fukushima Daiichi return home

TAMURA, Japan - Evacuees from the town of Okuma, where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is partially located, put on radiation protection suits to prepare for a brief visit home on June 4, 2011, in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. The residents living within 7 to 10 kilometers from the facility returned home briefly for the first time since being forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks at the plant, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Residents of town near Fukushima Daiichi return home

TAMURA, Japan - Evacuees from the town of Okuma, where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is partially located, put on radiation protection suits to prepare for a brief visit home on June 4, 2011, in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture. The residents living within 7 to 10 kilometers from the facility returned home briefly for the first time since being forced to evacuate due to radiation leaks at the plant, triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Enrollment ceremony at Fukushima school

IWAKI, Japan - New first graders (front row) at an elementary school in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, observe a moment of silence during their entrance ceremony on April 6, 2011, for two students from the school who died in a tsunami after the March 11 earthquake. The school, which is renting space in another school facility in the city, saw a decline in enrollment as many residents have evacuated following the disaster and ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Enrollment ceremony at Fukushima school

IWAKI, Japan - New first graders at an elementary school in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, prepare for a group photo on April 6, 2011. The school, which was damaged by the March 11 tsunami, is renting space in another school facility in the city. The school saw a decline in enrollment as many residents have evacuated following the disaster and ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Local city assembly OKs restart of nuclear plant

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - Hideo Iwakiri (C), the mayor of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, speaks at a session of the city assembly on Oct. 28, 2014, after it approved restarting the two-reactor Sendai nuclear power plant in the southwestern Japanese city. The plant in September became the first nuclear facility to meet Japan's stricter safety requirements following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Local city assembly OKs restart of nuclear plant

SATSUMASENDAI, Japan - The city assembly of Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture convenes on Oct. 28, 2014, to determine whether to approve restarting the two-reactor Sendai nuclear power plant in the southwestern Japanese city. The plant in September became the first nuclear facility to meet Japan's stricter safety requirements following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)