*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. 3.7 m3/h through feed water system
piping arrangement.
- We commenced injection of nitrogen gas into Primary Containment Vessel at
1:31am on 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 fresh water by a motor driven pump powered by the
off-site transmission line.
Water is currently injected at approx. 3.5m3/h through feed water system
piping arrangement.
- At 5:30 pm on July 28, flow rate of injecting water to Unit 2 reactor
through feed water system was adjusted to approx. 3.6m3/h after reduction
of flow rate was observed.
Water is currently injected at approx. 3.6m3/h through feed water system
piping arrangement.
- At 8:06 pm on June 28, we started injecting nitrogen gas into the Primary
Containment Vessel.
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. 9.0m3/h through reactor feed water
system piping arrangement.
- At 8:01 pm on July 14, injection of nitrogen gas into the Primary
Containment Vessel started.
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 2:45 pm on July 15, we started the operation of the original Residual
Heat Removal System Pump (B).
- 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 7:47 pm on June 30, we started cyclic cooling of the spent fuel pool
in Unit 3 using alternative cooling system for fuel pool cooling and
filtering system.
- We will continuously conduct further water spray depending on the
conditions of spent fuel pools, if needed.
Others
- 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.
- From 8:00 pm on June 17, we started operation of water treatment of
accumulated water at accumulated water treatment facility.
- At 6:00 pm on July 2, we started the circulating injection cooling to
inject the water, which was treated by the accumulated water treatment
system, to the reactors through the buffer tank.
- From 4:53 pm on July 22 to 9:48 am on July 29, we implemented
transferring accumulated water at Unit 3 turbine building vertical shaft
to the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Process Main
Building).
- From 4:56 pm on July 22 to 9:43 am on July 29, we implemented
transferring accumulated water at Unit 2 turbine building vertical shaft
to the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Process Main
Building).
- At 10:00am on July 27, we started to transfer low level accumulated water
from the outdoor temporary tank to the "Mega-Float." However, it was
stopped at 10:45am due to leakage from the transfer pump. The replacement
work was started from 0:30pm and ended at 2:00pm. We implemented the
transfer from 10 am to 5 pm on July 28.
- From 11am to 4 pm on July 28, we transferred accumulated water at Unit 6
turbine building to the temporary tank. We resuimed the transfer from 10
am on July 29.
- From 2:33 pm to 6:50 pm on July 28, we implemented fresh water injection
into the Reactor well and the Drier separator pit of Unit 4, in order to
lower the radiation level at 5th floor of the Unit 4 Reactor building.
- We will continue to take all measures to ensure the safety and to
continue monitoring the surrounding environment around the power station.