Expert group: Fukushima 2051 decommission goal ‘impossible’
Posted: 11th March 2026
By KEITARO FUKUCHI/ Staff Writer
March 10, 2026 at 18:24 JST
The No. 1 to No. 4 reactors, right to left, at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on March 2 (Tatsuya Shimada)
A research group is urging the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. to redo their road map for decommissioning the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by 2051, calling the goal unrealistic in a study published March 10.