美国核退役公司Amentum Services Inc.计划于2029年在福岛县双叶町建立培训中心，为福岛第一核电站燃料碎片移除工作培养工人。该举措预计最早2037年开始全面作业，并与东京电力控股公司（TEPCO）合作，建立稳定的熟练人员供应。
福岛第一核电站的退役工作自2011年事故以来备受全球关注。总部位于弗吉尼亚州的Amentum Services Inc.于2022年与TEPCO签署合作协议，支持退役计划。该公司在约80个国家开展业务，拥有超过5.3万名员工，曾为英国Sellafield Ltd.设施和乌克兰切尔诺贝利核电站的项目提供技术援助，这两个事故均被评为国际核与辐射事件分级表7级，与福岛的严重程度相当。
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings unveiled a new robot arm on Wednesday for the project to remove nuclear fuel debris from its tsunami-crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. The 22-meter-long arm can grab debris from a wider area than the previously used fishing rod-like devices. Tepco plans to begin setting it up next month and start the third trial at the No. 2 reactor this autumn.
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Japan's Environment Ministry plans to launch full-scale efforts to recycle soil collected during decontamination work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the 2011 meltdown. The ministry seeks to reuse soil with low levels of radioactive contamination from areas polluted by the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' facility. It began using the soil in the front garden of the Prime Minister's Office and flower beds at central government offices in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district last year.
Tokyo Electric Power Company restarted its No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture on Wednesday evening. This marks TEPCO's first reactor restart since the 2011 Fukushima accident, though local residents remain divided. Commercial operations are slated for February 26.
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Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has launched an on-site inspection at Chubu Electric Power's headquarters in Nagoya concerning fraudulent earthquake risk data linked to the Hamaoka nuclear power plant. The probe seeks to fully uncover the circumstances and motives behind the misconduct, which may have underestimated seismic ground motions at the facility. Depending on the findings, the authority could impose severe actions, such as disapproving reactor restarts or revoking the plant's installation permit.