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Press Release (Jul 30,2011)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station (as of 3:00 pm, July 30)
On March 11 2011, Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station Units 1 to 4 
(Boiling Water Reactors, rated output 1,100 Megawatts each) that we had 
been operating at rated thermal output shutdown automatically at 2:48 pm, 
due to the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (previously announced on 
March 11).

At 7:15 am on March 15, the reactor of Unit 4 achieved a cold shutdown. As 
a result, all the Units of Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station achieved 
the status of cold shutdown (previously announced on March 15). 

As of 3:00 pm on July 30, Units 1 to 4 remain in a cold shutdown (please 
refer to the appendix). 

We will make our best efforts to stabilize each plant.

<Updates are underlined>
Among monitoring post (total of 7), which are installed at site boundary, 
we are implementing regular inspection for No. 1 - 6 (1 monitoring post 
per day) from July 29 to August 8.
In the period of inspection, although it is unable to measure radiation 
dose by such monitoring post, we will continue to measure and confirm the 
data by using remainder of 6 monitoring post.
Inspection date might be changed due to the weather.

 (Operation Results of Regular Inspection)
   ○No.6: July 29, 9:31 am - 6:30 pm in regular inspection
     *No significant changes in the data were confirmed before and after 
      the inspection of monitoring posts. 
Appendix: TEPCO Plant Status of Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station 
                                                         (PDF 16.6KB) 
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