Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 5
 

Anti-nuclear protesters holding placards shout slogans as they march in Tokyo April 10, 2011. The placard read, "No Need Nuclear Power Plant" and "Change Energy Policies". Japan is struggling to regain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeast on March 11, and is facing a major humanitarian and economic crisis.

An anti-nuclear protester shows off his owl during a march in front of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s (TEPCO) headquarters in Tokyo April 10, 2011. The placard attached to the owl reads, "We don't want to die just yet". A TEPCO executive apologised on Saturday for spreading radiation into the air and sea as regulators said the pumping of radioactive water into waters off Japan from a crippled nuclear plant would end one day later than planned.

A protester holds 'Stop Hamaoka No More Fukushima' placard while marching in front of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) headquarters during a rally demanding the stop of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Tokyo on April 10, 2011. The Hamaoka nuclear power plant stands over the subduction zone near the junction of two tectonic plates and is named as 'the most dangerous nuclear power plant in Japan.'

Protesters hold placards against nuclear power plant as they took to the streets in a rally against nuclear power and its development, in Tokyo, on Sunday, April 10, 2011, after a devastative earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan last month. The placards held by the protesters show leaders of countries of the three major nuclear power industries, from left, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

Anti-nuclear demonstrators take part in a protest march in Berlin on March 26, 2011. Demonstrations against nuclear power in many cities around the country are upping the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel a day ahead of a crunch state election.

In this photo released by Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry via Kyodo News, Japanese Trade Minister Banri Kaieda in protective suit speaks before employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. inside the waste processing building of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant during his one-day trip to the tsunami-crippled complex in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, Saturday, April 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo released by Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency via Kyodo News, Japanese Trade Minister Banri Kaieda, left, in protective suit speaks to employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. inside the waste processing building of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant during his one-day trip to the tsunami-crippled complex in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, Saturday, April 9, 2011. (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo released by Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency via Kyodo News, Japanese Trade Minister Banri Kaieda, second right, in protective suit listens to employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. inside the waste processing building of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant during his one-day trip to the tsunami-crippled complex in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, Saturday, April 9, 2011. (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

These two combo photos released Saturday, April 9, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News show before (top) and after (bottom) the March 11, 2011 tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake hitting the compound of the Fukushima Dai-ni nuclear power plant in Futaba town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this March 29, 2011 photo released Saturday, April 9, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co.,(TEPCO), broken windows and office items are scattered in an office at the first floor of the main building of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

In this March 29, 2011 photo released Saturday, April 9, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co.,(TEPCO), items are scattered and ceilings are broken apart in an office at the second floor of the main building of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

In this March 29, 2011 photo released Saturday, April 9, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co.,(TEPCO), broken windows are scattered near the main entrance to the main building of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

A worker wearing a protective suit installs the de-contamination area of the quake-proof building, built to expand the radiological protection space at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in this handout photo taken on March 31 and released by Tokyo Electric Power April 8, 2011. Picture taken March 31, 2011.

Disaster relief leaders hold a meeting at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in this handout photo taken on April 1 and released by Tokyo Electric Power April 8, 2011. Picture taken April 1, 2011.

Disaster relief leaders hold a meeting at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture, in this handout photo taken on April 1 and released by Tokyo Electric Power April 8, 2011. Picture taken April 1, 2011.

A worker wearing a protective suit stands in front of a broken elevator inside the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan in this handout photo taken April 8, 2011, and released by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. Japan will pump radioactive water into the sea from the crippled nuclear plant until Sunday, a day later than previously planned, its nuclear safety agency said. Picture taken April 8, 2011. Mandatory Credit.

Workers wearing protective suits inspect the second basement floor of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan in this handout photo taken April 8, 2011, and released by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. Japan will pump radioactive water into the sea from the crippled nuclear plant until Sunday, a day later than previously planned, its nuclear safety agency said. Picture taken April 8, 2011. Mandatory Credit.

A worker wearing protective suit points at his rubber boots to show the level of water being submerged at the second basement floor of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan in this handout photo taken April 8, 2011, and released by Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. Japan will pump radioactive water into the sea from the crippled nuclear plant until Sunday, a day later than previously planned, its nuclear safety agency said. Picture taken April 8, 2011. Mandatory Credit.

In this photo released by Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and distributed by Kyodo News, workers in protective suits walk around near the entrance of the waste processing building with parts of scaffoldings and debris splatter washed away by the March 11 tsunami at the compound of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumacho, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Friday, April. 8, 2011. (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

Company personnel walk around a 95-ton Putzmeister concrete pumper to be deliver to Japan at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport on April 8, 2011, in Atlanta, Georgia. A Russian cargo plane will transport the 95-ton concrete pumper to assist in the cooling down efforts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Gary Schmidt, a regional sales manager from Putzmeister America, watches as one of the world's largest concrete boom pumps is loaded onto a Russian Antonov An-124 cargo jet at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday April 8,2011. The Russian cargo planes will carry the massive pumps from airports in Atlanta and Los Angeles to Japan to spray cooling water on reactors at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, journalists film the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Some radioactive water splashed out of the pools at the plant after a strong aftershock Thursday night, April 7, 2011 but did not leave a containment building, Tohoku Electric said. (Xinhua, Ji Chunpeng) NO SALES

This aerial photo shows oil leaking over oil-spill containment boom from the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011 following Thursday's strong aftershock. (Yomiuri Shimbun, Koichi Nakamura) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

This aerial photo shows oil leaking over oil-spill containment boom from the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan Friday, April 8, 2011 following Thursday's strong aftershock. (Yomiuri Shimbun, Koichi Nakamura) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

An aerial view of Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant after an earthquake and tsunami struck Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan in this March 13, 2011 picture taken by Kyodo. Waters leaks were found at Onagawa nuclear plant in northeast Japan after a strong aftershock hit Japan on April 7, 2011, but there has been no change in radiation levels outside the plant, Tohoku Electric Power, the operator of the plant, said. Picture taken March 13, 2011.

The Mega-Float large floating structure is towed into Yokohama port for a final checkout in the water off Yokohama, near Tokyo, Thursday, April 7, 2011. It will be tugged towards the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant for collecting the plant’s highly radioactive water. (Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

A floating pontoon as a public fishing park is seen in this aerial view in Shimizu, Japan, Saturday, April 2, 2011. Shimizu city authority offered the pontoon, known as "Mega Float," to Tokyo Electric Power Co.,(TEPCO) to help store highly contaminated stagnant water at the compound of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake-triggered tsunami. (Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasufumi Nagao) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okuma town, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Thursday, April 7, 2011. After notching a rare victory by stopping highly radioactive water from flowing into the Pacific, workers at the flooded nuclear power complex turned to their next task Thursday: injecting nitrogen to prevent more hydrogen explosions. Nuclear officials said Wednesday there was no immediate threat of explosions.