*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 reactor
through the reactor feed water system was initiated.
-From 3:37 pm on March 25, we started injecting freshwater by a motor
driven pump which is now powered by the off-site transmission line. Water
is currently injected at approx. 3.5㎥/h through reactor feed water
system piping arrangement.
-As it was suspected that hydrogen gas had been accumulated inside Primary
Containment Vessel, in order to prevent increase in density of oxygen, we
commenced the valve opening operation concerning injection of nitrogen
gas into the primary containment vessel at 10:30 pm on April 6 and
commenced injection at 1:31am April 7.
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 freshwater by a motor driven pump powered by the
off-site transmission line.
At 6:27 pm on June 23, we changed the water injection line so that we can
inject water to Unit 1 and 2 by the motor driven pump for Unit 1 and
stopped the motor driven pump for Unit 2.
Water is currently injected at approx. 3.5㎥/h through reactor feed water
system piping arrangement.
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.
Water is currently injected at approx. 9 ㎥/h through reactor feed water
system piping arrangement.
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 Reactor
Building.
-At this moment, we do not consider any reactor coolant leakage inside the
primary containment vessel has occurred.
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 cold shutdown.
-At this moment, we do not consider any reactor coolant leakage inside the
primary containment vessel has occurred.
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 cold shutdown.
-At this moment, we do not consider any reactor coolant leakage inside the
primary containment vessel has occurred.
Operation for cooling the spent fuel pools
-At 5:21 pm on May 31, we started cyclic cooling of the spent fuel pool
in Unit 2 using alternative cooling system for fuel pool cooling and
filtering system.
-At 4:35 pm on June 24, we started the cooling of the spent fuel pool by
the pump of the Fuel Pool Cooling and Filtering System.
-From 3:00 pm to 5:18 pm on June 27, we injected boric acid solution to
Spent Fuel Pool of Unit 3.
-We will continuously conduct further water spray depending on the
conditions of spent fuel pools, if needed.
Others
-At 1:30 pm on April 26, we started spraying the dust inhibitor inside
the site.
-At 11:00 am on May 10, we started transferring accumulated water from
the underground level of reactor building to the radiation waste
treatment facility of Unit 6.
-At approximately 10:00 am on June 13, we started the operation of the
circulating seawater purification facility installed at the screen area
of Unit 2 and 3.
-At 4:20 pm on June 27, the operation of circulation injection cooling
was initiated by injecting water from the filter water tank as well as
usage of the treated water regarding water injection to the reactor. At
5:55 pm, since we confirmed a leakage from the pipe which supplies water
from treated water tank to injection pump of reactor, we stopped
supplying treated water. Injecting water to the reactor has been kept
from filtered water tank at stated flow rate.
-From 8:00 pm on June17, we started operation of water treatment of
accumulated water at accumulated water treatment facility.
-From 3:32 pm on June 21 to 9:58 am on 9:58, we had transferred
accumulated water in turbine building of Unit 3 to central waste
treatment facility building.
-At 9:56 am on June 22, we started transferring accumulated water in
turbine building of Unit 2 to central waste treatment facility building.
-At 9:40 am on June 28, we started injecting fresh water to the reactor
well (unit 4) and temporally dry separation pool for environment
improvement (reduce radio active dose) on 5th floor reactor building of
unit 4.
-We will continue to take all measures to ensure the safety and to
continue monitoring the surrounding environment around the power station.