23 March 2016 (07:49 UTC-07 Tango 01) 04 Farvardin 1395/13 Jumada t-Tania 1437/15 Xin Mao 4714

“For five years you continued to say there was no standard for determining when a meltdown occurs! How can we trust you?! How can we let your company restart the nuclear plant?!”-Tateishi Masaaki, Niigata Prefectural Councilman, to TEPCo administrator during public hearing (and yes, he was actually yelling at the TEPCo official)

On Tuesday, Tokyo Electric Power Company was finally attacked by government leaders!  TEPCo was blasted for lying about its own policy regarding the determination of when a nuclear reactor was melting down, and their request to restart reactors 6 and 7 of the  Kashiwazaki-kariwa nuke plant was denied!

For years TEPCo claimed there was no standard for officially identifying a nuclear meltdown (even though an idiot should know that when the rods start physically melting, that’s a meltdown), yet last month TEPCo administrators publicly released a manual that had specific meltdown SOP (standard operating procedures).   TEPCo had used the excuse of ‘no meltdown standards’ as a reason why they failed to call the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi a meltdown, even weeks after several reactor buildings blew up!  Yesterday, Managing Executive Officer Anegawa Takafumi publicly admitted to the Niigata Prefectural Council (during hearings to restart the Kashiwazaki-kariwa nuke plant) that TEPCo managers didn’t know about their own ‘meltdown’ manual at the time of the Fukushima meltdowns: “We should have known about…and reported the existence of the manuals sooner…”

Regarding the GE designed Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuke plant in Niigata Prefecture (the world’s largest, by the way); Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) stated that TEPCo has failed to provide required natural disaster survival data, and therefore the NRA halted ‘screenings for restart’ of the reactors.  The nuke plant has supposedly survived several earthquakes over the past ten years.  However, at the beginning of the month TEPCo reported “unexplained” fuel rod movement in reactor 5.

During 2011, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa experienced “unexplained” smoke pouring out of a control panel.   Back in 2007 a transformer exploded and caught fire due to an earthquake, which also released cobalt-60 and chromium-51 into the air.

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