A team of British government officials has ended a visit to Japan without resolving differences between the two countries over a shipment of reprocessed nuclear fuel.

The batch arrived in Japan last October with falsified safety data, causing Tokyo to suspend the use of British fuel supplies.

Japan wants Britain to ship it back, but the head of the British team Anna Walker said she still needed to discuss whether this would be practical.

The results of an official enquiry into the incident will be published next week.

But a BBC correspondent in Tokyo says it will be hard to convince a skeptical Japanese public that Britain's nuclear industry can be trusted.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service