28 March 2014 (15:18 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Jumada l-Ula 1435/08 Farvardin 1393/28 Ding-Mao 4712

In Japan, a throwaway worker at Fukushima Daiichi was buried alive while rebuilding a warehouse just to the north of reactor Unit 1.  They were trying to shore up the foundation, the worker was down in a hole when a wall of fresh concrete and mud buried him.  He died at the hospital.

A new documentary shows how prized horses were left to starve to death because of the Fukushima Daiichi melt downs.  The owner of the horses was able to return and save some, but at least seven of the horses, used in a thousand years old ceremony, died of starvation.  It’s called The Horses of Fukushima.

Another electric power company is suing Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo).  The other company just happens to have the same initials as TEPCo, but its name is Tohoku Electric Power Company.  Tohoku Power officials say TEPCo owes them at least $1.67 million USD for Tohoku Power’s forced evacuation of the Fukushima radiation zone.  TEPCo officials replied to Tohoku Power’s claim by stating “We will deal appropriately with the demands.”    

So far, TEPCo has been reneging on compensation payments to individual victims.

In New Mexico, U.S.A., four more nuclear workers at the nuke weapons waste storage site, known as WIPP, are contaminated.  That brings the number of officially contaminated workers to 21.

Two New Mexican senators, Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, demanded an explanation from the Department of Energy (DoE) why required safety inspections were not performed: “The health and safety of the workers at WIPP and the surrounding community are our top priorities and it is extremely concerning to learn that a fire in the mining portion of WIPP was a preventable circumstance.”

Four safety inspections per year are required at WIPP, but an investigation revealed that only two inspections were done during a three year period!

After early reports said inspection teams were heading down WIPP, turns out an inspection team of eight people will actually enter the deep mines next week.

Supposedly, two weeks from now, the U.S. EPA will deploy mobile rad monitoring units at WIPP.   The idea is to provide airborne radiation monitoring since it’s become obvious that people can’t trust the DoE’s own monitoring.

In the city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officials are expressing concern over the ongoing WIPP problems.  Mexican news media says Juárez is within the nuke evacuation zone of WIPP.  Officials from the U.S. DoE and EPA are going to visit Mexican cities to convince them they are in no danger.