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In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, third right, wearing a red helmet, is briefed about tanks containing radioactive water by Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono, fourth right, during his inspection tour to the tsunami-crippled plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, following a series of radioactive water leak from the tanks. (AP Photo/Japan Pool, File) Read: Gov’t Proposes More Steps to Store Fukushima Water |
| A government panel proposed additional measures to lessen the contaminated water crisis at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant, saying Tuesday, Dec. 3, that current plans are not enough to prevent the risk of a disaster. |
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A Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) employee wearing a protective suit and a mask walks in front of a fuel handling machine on the spent fuel pool inside the building housing the Unit 4 reactor at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima, northeastern Japan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. Japanese regulators on Oct. 30 formally approved the removal of fuel rods from the cooling pool at the damaged Unit 4 reactor building considered the highest risk at the crippled nuclear plant. Removing the fuel rods is the first major step in a decommissioning process that is expected to last decades at the Fukushima plant, where three reactors melted down after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Tomohiro Ohsumi, Pool) |
| Members of the media and Tokyo Electric Power Co. employees wearing protective suits and masks stand outside the Unit 4 reactor before starting their inspection at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tomohiro Ohsumi, Pool) |
| A Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee wearing a protective suit and a mask stands next to the spent fuel pool inside the building housing the Unit 4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Workers will begin removing radioactive fuel rods Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, from one of four reactors at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The painstaking and risky task is a crucial first step toward a full cleanup of the earthquake and tsunami-damaged plant in northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tomohiro Ohsumi, File) |
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An official of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., wearing a protective suit and a mask, measures radiation inside the building housing the Unit 4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Kimimasa Mayama, Pool) |
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