Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Hi-Res Photos 3
 

In this photo taken around 5:40 a.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), radiation-contaminated water, which had been draining previously through a crack in a wall, seen on right in this photo, is not visible in a maintenance pit near the Unit 2 reactor of the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

In this Tuesday, April 5, 2011 photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), radiation-contaminated water drains through a crack of a maintenance pit into the sea near the Unit 2 reactor of the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Japan's Self-Defense Force's members and others in protective gear hold blue sheets as they help to transfer workers who stepped into contaminated water on Thursday during their operation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, at a hospital in Fukushima, northern Japan Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Yomiuri Shimbun, Takuya Yoshino) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, lighting becomes available Thursday, March 24, 2011 in the control room of Unit 1 reactor at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, 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 photo released by Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers collect data in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2 at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency)

In this photo released by Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, a Tokyo Electric Power Co. worker looks at gauges in the control room for Unit 1 and Unit 2 at the sunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, March 23, 2011. (Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency)

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., the central control room of Unit 3 is pictured after lights went on while that of Unit 4, left side, is still dark at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, northern Japan Tuesday, March 22, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News)

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) , workers in protective suits conduct cooling operation by spraying water at the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan,Tuesday, March 22, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), gray smoke rises from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Monday, March 21, 2011. Official says the TEPCO temporarily evacuated its workers from the site. At left is Unit 2 and at right is Unit 4. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this image taken from footage filmed on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and released by the Japan Defense Ministry Friday, March 25, white smoke billows from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. Japanese reads: Ground Self-Defense Force troop in charge of Japan's northeastern region (Northeastern helicopter). (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this image taken from footage filmed on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and released by the Japan Defense Ministry Friday, March 25, the damaged roof of Unit 1 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex is seen. Japanese reads: Ground Self-Defense Force troop in charge of Japan's northeastern region (Northeastern helicopter). (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this image taken from footage filmed on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and released by the Japan Defense Ministry Friday, March 25, white smoke billows from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. Japanese reads: Ground Self-Defense Force troop in charge of Japan's northeastern region (Northeastern helicopter). (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this image taken from footage filmed on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and released by the Japan Defense Ministry Friday, March 25, white smoke billows from Unit 3 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. Japanese reads: Ground Self-Defense Force troop in charge of Japan's northeastern region (Northeastern helicopter). (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this image taken from footage filmed on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force and released by the Japan Defense Ministry Friday, March 25, white smoke billows from Unit 2 of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. Japanese reads: Ground Self-Defense Force troop in charge of Japan's northeastern region (Northeastern helicopter). (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this image taken from footage released by the Japan Defense Ministry, a fire engine from the Japan Self-Defense Forces sprays water toward Unit 3 of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex on Friday, March 18, 2011. In the backgrounds is Unit 4. Military fire trucks sprayed the reactor units Friday for a second day, with tons of water arching over the facility in attempts to prevent the fuel from overheating and emitting dangerous levels of radiation. (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this image taken from footage released by the Japan Defense Ministry, a fire engine from the Japan Self-Defense Forces sprays water toward Unit 3 of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex on Friday, March 18, 2011. In the backgrounds is Unit 4. Military fire trucks sprayed the reactor units Friday for a second day, with tons of water arching over the facility in attempts to prevent the fuel from overheating and emitting dangerous levels of radiation. (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this image taken from footage released by the Japan Defense Ministry, Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel talk before starting to spray water toward the Unit 3 of the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, Okumamachi, northeastern Japan, on Friday, March 18, 2011. Military fire trucks sprayed the reactor units Friday for a second day, with tons of water arching over the facility in attempts to prevent the fuel from overheating and emitting dangerous levels of radiation. (Japan Defense Ministry)

In this photo taken on on March 18, 2011 and released on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, workers in protective suits prepare to connect transmission lines to restore electric power supply to Unit 3 and Unit 4 at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, 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 photo taken on on March 18, 2011 and released on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, workers connect transmission lines to restore electric power supply to Unit 3 and Unit 4 at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is pictured before helicopters dump water on the stricken reactor to cool overheated fuel rods inside the core Thursday morning, March 17, 2011. (Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 and released on Thursday, March 17 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), white smoke billows from the badly damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture. A nearly completed new power line could restore cooling systems in Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant, its operator TEPCO said Thursday. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 16, 2011 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, smoke billows from wrecked Unit 4 at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture. Emergency crews worked to reconnect electricity to cooling systems and spray more water on overheating nuclear fuel at the tsunami-ravaged facility Friday. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 16, 2011 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, smoke billows from wrecked Unit 3 at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture. Emergency crews worked to reconnect electricity to cooling systems and spray more water on overheating nuclear fuel at the tsunami-ravaged facility Friday. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 16, 2011 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News Friday, smoke billows from wrecked unit 4 at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture. Emergency crews worked to reconnect electricity to cooling systems and spray more water on overheating nuclear fuel at the tsunami-ravaged facility Friday. (Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this image released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., smoke billows from the No. 3 unit among four housings cover four reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear complex Wednesday amid a surge in radiation, temporarily suspending efforts to cool the overheating reactors. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this Tuesday, March 15, 2011 image released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., smoke billows from Unit 3, left, at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. At right is Unit 4. Japan welcomed U.S. help Friday, March 18, 2011 in stabilizing its overheated, radiation-leaking nuclear complex, and reclassified the rating of the nuclear accident from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level international scale. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo released by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News, backrush of tsunami hitting Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is seen on March 11, 2011. (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this March 11, 2011 photo taken about 2 hours after a massive earthquake and tsunami occured, Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, is pictured. (Yomiuri Shimbun, Yasushi Kanno) JAPAN OUT

In this photo released by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News, Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is pictured around 4:57 p.m. on March 11, 2011 shortly after the facilities were hit by the tsunami. (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo, pictured at around 4:56 p.m. on March 11, 2011, and released by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News, pipes and other seafront facilities of Unit 1 reactor, not shown, are damaged at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, shortly after the complex was hit by the earthquake and tsunami. (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

In this photo, pictured at around 4:57 p.m. on March 11, 2011, and released by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News, pipes and other seafront facilities of Unit 1 reactor, not shown, are damaged at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, shortly after the complex was hit by the earthquake and tsunami. (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism via Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE