Police have been called into investigate after a suspected a World War Two bomb was found in the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan.
The almost 3foot long suspected bomb is believed to be an unexploded device dropped by the US at the height of the war.
It was found by workers building a car park near the nuclear plant's reactors, according to a spokesman for Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).
Building work has now been halted as police cordon off a one kilometre area around the site.
Work to decomission the nuclear power plant is still on going after reactors suffered a meltdown during the tsunami in 2011.
There was reportedly no impact on ongoing decommissioning operations at the nuclear plant
Japan's Jiji Press reported that under such circumstances police call in bomb disposal experts from Japan's military.
Unexploded US bombs and shells are still occasionally found in Japan more than 70 years after the conflict ended in 1945, particularly on the southern island of Okinawa where an extremely bloody battle took place in the war's closing months.
A Japanese military airport existed in the area around the Fukushima site in northeastern Japan during the war, and the area was a target of US bombing raids.
The meltdowns at Fukushima in 2011 were the world's worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
TEPCO and the government are facing a four-decade task of cleaning up and decommissioning the facility, while tens of thousands of people remain displaced, the majority from Fukushima prefecture due to high radiation.