Fire breaks out in power supply room at Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant; TEPCO: "No radioactive impact" (Kyodo News)

At around 10:45 a.m. on the 1st, a fire broke out in the power panel in the power room on the grounds of Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture, and a company employee called 119. The flames and smoke have already subsided, and there is no external impact of radiation. According to TEPCO, an employee discovered a malfunction during a routine test of the transformer disaster prevention device f…