*Updates are underlined
All 6 units of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been shut down.
Unit 1 (Shut down)
- Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed after the big quake
occurred at 3:36 pm on March 12th. It was assumed to be hydrogen
explosion.
- At approximately 2:30 am on March 23rd, seawater injection to the nuclear
reactor through the feed water system was initiated.
- From 3:37 pm on March 25th, we started injecting freshwater and are now
injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered by the off-site
transmission line.
- At 10:02 am on April 27th, in order to examine an appropriate amount of
water to make nuclear reactor flooded, the gradual operation to change
the amount of injecting freshwater from 6 m3/h to approximately 14 m3/h
was initiated
- As it is suspected that hydrogen gas is accumulated inside reactor
containment vessel, we commenced the valve opening operation concerning
injection of nitrogen gas into the reactor container vessel at 10:30 pm
April 6th and commenced injection at 1:31am April 7th.
Unit 2 (Shut down)
- At approximately 6:00 am on March 15th, an abnormal noise began emanating
from nearby Pressure Suppression Chamber and the pressure within the
chamber decreased.
- From 10:10 am on March 26th, we started injecting freshwater to the
reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered
by the off-site transmission line.
Unit 3 (Shut down)
- Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed at approximately 11:01am
on March 14th. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- From 6:02 pm on March 25th, we started injecting fresh water to the
reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered
by the off-site transmission line.
Unit 4 (outage due to regular inspection)
- At approximately 6:00 am on March 15th, we confirmed the explosive sound
and the sustained damage around the 5th floor rooftop area of the Nuclear
Reactor Building.
- At this moment, we do not consider any reactor coolant leakage inside the
reactor happened.
Unit 5 (outage due to regular inspection)
- Sufficient level of reactor coolant to ensure safety is maintained.
- At 5:00 am on March 19th, we started the Residual Heat Removal System
Pump (C) in order to cool the spent fuel pool.
- At 2:30 pm on March 20th, the reactor achieved reactor cold shutdown.
- At this moment, we do not consider any reactor coolant leakage inside
the reactor happened.
Unit 6 (outage due to regular inspection)
- Sufficient level of reactor coolant to ensure safety is maintained.
- At 10:14 pm on March 19th, we started the Residual Heat Removal System
Pump (B) of Unit 6 in order to cool the spent fuel pool.
- At 7:27 pm on March 20th, the reactor achieved reactor cold shutdown.
- At this moment, we do not consider any reactor coolant leakage inside
the reactor happened.
Operation for cooling the spent fuel pools
- From 12:18 pm to 3:15 pm on April 27th, water spray to the spent fuel
pool of Unit 4 by the concrete pumping vehicle was conducted.
- We will continuously conduct further water spray depending on the
conditions of spent fuel pools, if needed.
Others
- From 1:30 pm on April 26th, we started spraying dust inhibitor in order
to prevent diffusion of radioactive materials.
- At 10:08 am on April 19th we started transferring high level radioactive
wastewater to the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility.
- We will continue to take all measures to ensure the safety and to
continue monitoring the surrounding environment around the power station.