Nuclear Accident!?

Today I read a news paper's article that Nuclear Accident might have happened at a plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co on November of 1978. Five control rods has come away. It has a high probability of critical accident for t hours and 30 minuets at maximum. The plant officers didn't note it in a diary, and seems to disguise the incident. There is one more "surprise" that it maybe not infraction of duty to report until December of 1978.



As I recall, government said there is no possibility of Nuclear Accident at that day. Of course no one believed such a thing but it is a case people should get be angry. Democracy without information is death of politics.



Fortunately, it seems it was not big accident. But now they are research whether the accident happened or not and injuries were or not. It is 29 years go. Yes, 29 years ago. I think government should take the responsibility of omission. If government insisted nuclear accident is outside the bounds of possibility with such an un-reportable system advisedly, prosecutors should grab affiliates.



We can not help depending on Nuclear plants for a while. Such kind of accident and imperfect system would cause a large-scale accident　someday like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. If it happens in Kyushu, it may hit Korea and it would become big problem of diplomacy. I don't know where nuke plants are in Kyushu.



Good thing is that disclosure regime would be reinforced more. Even so, we live in dangerous society.



It is a photo of Ishiduchi mountain in Shikoku.