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FILE - This photo shows tanks (in gray, beige and blue) storeing water that was treated but is still radioactive after it was used to cool down spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 27, 2021. Japan’s nuclear regulator on Friday, July 22, 2022, approved the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea next year. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Japan OKs preparation step for Fukushima plant water release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 30, 2017, aerial file photo shows the reactors of No. 6, right, and No. 7, left, at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, on the northern Japanese coast in Niigata prefecture. The operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant that was destroyed in a 2011 disaster said Wednesday it will accept a penalty imposed by regulators over sloppy anti-terrorism measures at another nuclear plant it runs, a step that will prevent its desperately sought restart of the facility for at least a year. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan regulator bans nuke plant restart over lax safeguards

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2019, file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), shows melted fuel taken by a telescopic robot inside of the primary containment vessel of Unit 2 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Okuma, northeast Japan. Japan’s government and the operator of a wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 a removal of melted fuel will be postponed by about one year until late 2022 due to delayed development of a robotic arm in Britain amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via AP, File)

Melted fuel removal at Fukushima delayed by pandemic

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Prosecutors appeal TEPCO acquittal in Fukushima case

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese court finds 3 former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives not guilty of negligence in 2011 F

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In this March 16, 2011, file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, smoke billows from wrecked unit 3 at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co./Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan court: TEPCO execs not guilty in Fukushima disaster

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, a cooling pool where a total of mostly used 566 sets of fuel rods are stored underwater and covered by a protective net, waits to be removed in a step to empty the pool at Unit 3 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant ahead of a fuel removal from its storage pool in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeast Japan. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi, File)

Removal of fuel in pool at Fukushima’s melted reactor begins

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

IAEA urges Japan to take ample time in Fukushima cleanup

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, an employee walks past storage tanks for contaminated water at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, that much of the radioactive water stored at the plant isn't clean enough and needs further treatment if it is to be released into the ocean. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Treated water at Fukushima nuclear plant still radioactive

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2014, file photo, workers wearing protective gears stand outside Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant's reactor in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. A government-commissioned group of experts concluded Wednesday, March 7, 2018 that a costly underground ice wall is only partially effective in reducing the ever-growing amount of contaminated water at Japan's destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant, and that other measures are needed as well. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, Pool, File)

Experts: Fukushima must do more to reduce radioactive water

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from right, with a red helmet) is briefed about a chemical dam by Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant chief Akira Ono (second from left) as the lawmaker inspects an area along the coast between the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors during his tour of the tsunami-crippled plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Japan Pool)

Japanese leader Shinzo Abe wants Fukushima nuke plant completely scrapped

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

**FILE** Smoke rises March 15, 2011, from the badly damaged Unit 3 reactor (left), next to the Unit 4 reactor covered by an outer wall at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okuma, Japan. The emergency command center at Japan's stricken nuclear plant shook violently when hydrogen exploded at Unit 3 and the plant chief reacted by shouting, "This is serious, this is serious," reveal videos of the crisis as it happened. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co., File)

Power fails again at Japan’s ailing nuclear plant

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.N. opens probe into crippled nuke plant

By Malcolm Foster and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japan nuclear plant evacuees demand compensation

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press