Tokyo - Flights at Tokyo's Haneda airport suffered delays on Saturday, September 28, 2014, as planes changed routes to avoid a volcano at Mt. Ontake. Most flights at Haneda airport were back to normal by Sunday, September 29, 2014, an airport spokeswoman said.
Sakurajima, another active volcano, in the Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyusho, Japan, at the southern end of the western island of Kyushu, is 50km (31 miles) from Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai nuclear power plant. Sendai was approved to restart by Japan's nuclear regulatory agency earlier in September 2014. Ash from Saturday's volcano was found on cars as far away as 80km (50 miles).
Japan is home to 110 active volcanoes. Kyushu Electric has said it will install new monitoring equipment around nearby calderas (caps on top of previously erupted volcanoes). Kyushu Electric also says it plans to remove highly radioactive fuel to a safer site if the threat of an eruption is detected. See also, www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/.
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