08 March 2016 (15:15 UTC-07 Tango 01) 18 Esfand 1394/28 Jumada al-Ula 1437/30 Xin Mao 4714
Five years after the ongoing nuclear melt downs at Fukushima Daiichi, another nuclear power plant is in trouble! Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reported the sudden unexplained movement of a highly explosive nuclear fuel rod!
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, in Nigata Prefecture, is operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, the same outfit operating Fukushima Daiichi.
Reator 5 of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has 185 explosive fuel rods and during the operation of some valves one of the rods moved out of place. If rods touch each other, that’s all she wrote man! TEPCo administrators swear the operation of valves on the reactor should not cause any rods to move. They say one minute later the rod repositioned itself. An investigation is underway.
This isn’t the first time Kashiwazaki-Kariwa has been in trouble. Back in 2007 a transformer exploded and caught fire due to an earthquake, which also released cobalt-60 and chromium-51 into the air.
More proof why you can’t trust TEPCo: Five years after promising the world that it could handle the nuclear disaster, TEPCo administrators are now going to the government of Fukushima Prefecture for help! Specifically they’ve admitted to the local government that they can’t handle the ongoing contamination of water, to the tune of 5-hundred tonnes per day! TEPCo’s Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Officer Masuda Naohiro made the revelation during a recent interview with NHK.
And several anniversary reports by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reveal that thousands of homeless disaster survivors are being screwed over not only by the national government, but by local governments as well.
Several prefectures are forcing survivors out of taxpayer funded temporary housing into non-subsidized permanent housing. Many surviving families are concerned as they have yet to find permanent jobs and can’t afford to pay rent. One news reports revealed that disaster survivors are intentionally being shunned by employers! Some prefectures are playing a shell game, shuffling survivors from one housing project to the next, claiming it’s part of a plan to provide them with permanent housing.
Recently the Reconstruction Agency revealed that thousands of people have died, and hundreds of thousands are still in temporary homes. One of the reasons for so many deaths of survivors is the game that’s being played with their housing, and health administrators warn the ongoing games by government will lead to more deaths by stress.