Struggling With Japan's Nuclear Waste, Six Years After Disaster

A worker on the outside wall of the Reactor 2 building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station last month.
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Six years after the largest nuclear disaster in a quarter-century, Japanese officials have still not solved a basic problem: what to do with an ever-growing pile of radioactive waste. Each form of waste at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, where three reactors melted down after an earthquake and a tsunami on March 11, 2011, presents its own challenges.