Fukushima Daiichi Today: Successes and Setbacks

TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station as viewed from the west. Beyond the rows of tanks built to store contaminated water stand the reactor buildings where multiple meltdowns occurred. (Photographed by the author on February 17, 2017.)

Unit 2 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi. (Photographed by the author on February 17, 2017.)

The deformed steel grating under the Unit 2 reactor as filmed on January 30, 2017. Some sections of the platform were determined to have melted away. (Courtesy of IRID)

Masuda Naohiro, president of the company set up to supervise the decommissioning effort.