China looks set to start lifting its ban on the import of Japanese fishery products after reaching an agreement with Japan for the independent monitoring of the discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by China and other countries.

Japan's planned approach for recycling and disposing of soil and radioactive waste from decontamination activities after the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is consistent with IAEA Safety Standards, a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has concluded.

Tohoku Electric Power Company announced it has started loading fuel assemblies into the reactor of unit 2 at its Onagawa nuclear power plant in Japan's northeastern Miyagi Prefecture. The reactor has been offline since November 2010 and will become the 13th Japanese reactor to be restarted.

Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited now expects the reprocessing plant and mixed-oxide fuel plant under construction at Rokkasho in Japan's Aomori Prefecture to be completed during fiscal years 2026 and 2027, respectively.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced he will hold a ministerial meeting next week to discuss measures needed to gain local consent for the restart of reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture.

Tokyo Electric Power Company has suspended the first attempt to extract fuel debris from within the primary containment vessel of unit 2 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after an error in the setup of the debris retrieval device was identified.

Tokyo Electric Power Company announced the discovery on 9 August of a water leak at unit 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant involving an estimated 25 tonnes of water from the used fuel cooling system pump room and the heat exchanger room.

Japan has a "robust nuclear security regime", an International Atomic Energy Agency team of experts has concluded. The latest International Physical Protection Advisory Service mission followed a previous mission in 2015 and a follow-up mission in 2018.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology have completed the production of a prototype outer vertical target, one of the key components of the divertor to be used in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. MHI said it is now ready for series production.

Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority looks set to rule that unit 2 of the Tsuruga nuclear power plant in Fukui prefecture does not comply with regulatory safety standards after a review team concluded that seismic activity beneath the unit cannot be ruled out. Owner Japan Atomic Power Company insists that further investigations are required.

British inertial fusion energy developer First Light Fusion has hosted a delegation from the Japanese government, headed by State Minister Soichiro Imaeda from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The visit comes as the UK and Japan seek closer collaboration on commercial fusion energy research.

Japan's Muroosystems Corp has signed an acquisition agreement for Nukem Technologies Engineering Services, which specialises in decommissioning, waste management and engineering services.