Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Photos 7

Residents of Iitate village listen to Mayor Norio Sugano,right back to camera, explain a government plan to evacuate residents from the village that's about 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the radiation-spewing Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan, on Wednesday April 13, 2011. (Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

Angry residents forced from their homes near Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant take seat as they meet officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, at its headquarters in Tokyo Wednesday, April 13, 2011. About 20 small business owners from communities near the plant demanded compensation as the company's president pledged to do more to help those affected by the crisis. The banner reads: TEPCO that disgraced Fukushima should compensate us all." (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

In this undated photo released Wednesday, April 13, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co., a standing man is partially seen above an example of the truck used to move spent fuel rods in the pools. Nothing is decided yet but TEPCO told the press at its Tokyo headquarters Wednesday morning that this is one option TEPCO officials are considering to use at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

Below, top right, the Fukushima Daiichi spent fuel cask storage facility.

Top right photo below shows the Fukushima Daiichi spent fuel cask storage facility.

Related cask storage files:

nuhoms-cask.zip       NUHOMS Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Cask Drawings  April 13, 2011 (3.1MB)
rancho-seco-fsar.zip  Rancho Seco Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Safety    April 13, 2011 (5.5MB)

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), workers operate a modified Putzmeister 70Z, the world's largest concrete pump mounted on a truck, to pump contaminated water from the Unit 4 at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Tuesday, April 12, 2011. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Compare above photo to the photo below 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.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

In this photo released April 12, 2011 by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), workers lower a panel that is used to cover the sluice gate to stop drainage from Unit 2 reactor at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan's nuclear regulators raised the severity level of the crisis at a stricken nuclear plant Tuesday to rank it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, citing the amount of radiation released in the accident. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

In this photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), a small fire breaks out from facilities sampling seawater located a few dozen meters from Unit 4 inside the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Tuesday morning, April 12, 2011. The fire was put out soon and the ongoing cooling operations at the main units were not affected according to TEPCO. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

A facility for a sampling from seawater is seen after a fire was extinguished near No.4 reactor of the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima Prefecture in this handout photo taken on April 12, 2011. A fire broke out at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo Electric and Power (TEPCO) said on Tuesday, although flames and smoke were no longer visible. A worker saw fire at a building near the No.4 reactor at around 6:38 a.m. (21:38 GMT) and a fire fighting unit of the Self Defence Forces was sent to fight the blaze, a TEPCO spokesman said. (Tokyo Electric Power Co.) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Police officers man a checkpoint in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, about 20-kilometers (12-miles) from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Monday, April 11, 2011. The signs read "No entry, Entry not allowed by the special nuclear disaster legislation," right, and "Security check in operation," left. (Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE

The slogan "Ganbaro Nippon", or "Let's carry on Japan", comes to windows of the observation deck of the Tokyo Tower in Tokyo Monday night, April 11, 2011, a month after the earthquake and tsunami hit eastern Japan. Using solar power, 8,400 light-emitting diode lamps began to light up the 333-meter-high landmark Monday though its usual illumination was turned off soon after the disaster, local media said. (Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE