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Press Release (May 09,2011)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 3:00 pm, May 9)

*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 12. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- At approximately 2:30 am on March 23, seawater injection to the nuclear
  reactor through the feed water system was initiated.
- From 3:37 pm on March 25, we started injecting freshwater and are now
  injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered by the off-site
  transmission line.
- 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 7.
- At 10:01 am on May 6th, in order to make nuclear reactor flooded to the
  top of Fuel range, we have increased the amount of injecting freshwater
  from approximately 6m3/h to approximately 8m3/h. 
Unit 2 (Shut down) 
- At approximately 6:00 am on March 15, an abnormal noise began emanating
  from nearby Pressure Suppression Chamber and the pressure within the
  chamber decreased. 
- From 10:10 am on March 26, 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 14. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- From 6:02 pm on March 25, 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 15, 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 19, we started the Residual Heat Removal System Pump
  (C) in order to cool the spent fuel pool.
- At 2:30 pm on March 20, 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 19, 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 20, 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 12:14 pm to 3:00 pm, May 9th, we conducted water spray by temporary 
  electrical pumps to Unit 3. We also injected hydrazine (corrosion 
  inhibitor) from 12:39 pm to 2:36 pm. 
- We will continuously conduct further water spray depending on the
  conditions of spent fuel pools, if needed. 
Others 
- The transfer of high level radioactive wastewater in Unit 2 to the
  Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility was temporarily suspended
  at 9:22am on May 7th, due to construction of injection piping (reactor
  feeding water system) to reactor of unit3. The construction work has
  completed and we re-started the transfer at 4:02 pm.
- As a preparation for the water injection to the reactor of Unit 3
  through Feeding Water System, we started extracting water from the
  condenser of the turbine building at 4:18 pm on May 8th. 
- From May 2, we have started work relating to the set up of exhausters,
  in order to improve the working environment inside the reactor building
  of Unit 1. At 4:36 pm on May 5th, all of exhausters (6 units) were
  started to operation. At 8:02 pm on May 8th, we stopped its operation,
  removed a duct from double doors and opened a part of the doors. Then we
  fully opened the double doors at 4:17 am on May 9th. We also opened the
  door aside of the carry-in gate for large stuff of the reactor building.
  We measured the air dose rate and confirmed no radiation impact to the
  outside.
- From 2 pm May 9th, we started transfer of accumulated water from the 
  turbine building of unit 6 to a temporary storage tank. 
- We will continue to take all measures to ensure the safety and to
  continue monitoring the surrounding environment around the power
  station. 
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