Japan Prepares For Upcoming Nuclear Winter (Revelation 15)

Japan Conducts 1st Midwinter Nuclear Disaster Drill

   Kyowa, Hokkaido, Feb. 4 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government on Saturday held a comprehensive nuclear evacuation drill in midwinter for the first time, assuming an accident at Hokkaido Electric Power Co.'s <9509> Tomari nuclear power station in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.

As blizzards and accumulated snow could make it difficult for residents to evacuate, participants in the drill checked procedures needed to be taken in case of emergency at the plant, including the removal of snow from evacuation routes.

   Taking part in the drill were 460 people, including 60 nearby residents and officials from such central government agencies as the Cabinet Office and the Nuclear Regulation Authority and local authorities such as the Hokkaido prefectural government.

   The drill assumed that the cooling function for the No. 3 reactor at the nuclear plant in the village of Tomari has been completely lost amid a blizzard with the maximum instantaneous wind speed of 35 meters per second and 24-hour snowfall of 30 centimeters mainly in the Shiribeshi region of western Hokkaido where the village is located.

   On Saturday morning, participants checked procedures that will be taken in case of a blizzard blocking their way to an off-site emergency response center in the town of Kyowa, which neighbors Tomari. They practiced switching to a plan of using the Hokkaido government's office in the city of Sapporo, the capital of the prefecture, as a provisional off-site center for initial response.

(2017/02/04-18:06)

The Russian Nuclear Horn Displays Its Might (Dan 7:7)

Russian Navy Carries Out Mock Attack on Nuclear Submarine

BY  DAMIEN SHARKOV  3/19/15 AT 10:37 AM

A view shows Russia’s nuclear-powered submarine Yekaterinburg at a Russian navy base in Murmansk region March 16, 2011. ANDREI PRONIN/REUTERS

Russian naval units launched an air-and-sea practice offensive on a nuclear submarine today in the Barents Sea, which Russia shares with Norway. The drill is part of Russia’s massive snap military drills which are due to continue until 21 March.

The ‘strike and search group’, as the Russian Ministry of Defence referred to it, from the navy’s Northern Fleet comprised of Tu-142 ‘Bear’ naval aviation reconnaissance bombers and Il-38 ‘Dolphin’ maritime patrol jets as well as two small anti-submarine ships and support vessels.

The practice attack on one of the Northern Fleet’s nuclear submarine units, designated as a target for the benefit of the exercise, went ahead today and according to the Russian Ministry of Defence the drill was successful, Russian state news service Tass reports.

The aim of the exercise was to test the capability of the strike and search group to locate a nuclear submarine and force it to resurface.

“During the exercise crews from the anti-submarine vessels successfully completed fire of the RBU – 6000 reaction engine-bomb installation and also utilized torpedo capabilities,” the Ministry of Defence said.

The Barents Sea is located between Russia and both mainland Norway and the Norwegian island territories of of Svalbard have access to it. Russia’s interests in the Barents Sea have previously prompted Oslo to insist it supplements NATO submarines in the region with its own.

In 2012 Norwegian defence minister Espen Barthe Eide said he did not believe Norway “would ever be without its own submarines because we have such large seas with Russia as its neighbour”.

Meanwhile Russia announced it has commissioned two more submarines to be built by 2020, one of which is nuclear powered, in celebration of today’s military holiday – Submariner’s Day.

Russia’s large scale military exercises, which began on Monday, have increased Russian military activity near several of its borders as the fleet tests its combat readiness.

These drills have unsettled some of its European neighbours already. Lithuania reported yesterday that it had intercepted 11 Russian jets near its airspace, which flew with their tracking devices switched off and without giving warning of the route they would undertake.