*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 3:37 pm on March 25, 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.
The current water injection volume is approx 5.5 m3/h from the reactor
feed water system.
- We commenced injection of nitrogen gas into Primary Containment Vessel at
1:31 am on April 7.
- At 11:22 am on August 10, we started cyclic cooling for the water in the
spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool
Cooling and Filtering System.
- On October 28, we completed installation of the cover for the Reactor
Building in order to contain dispersion of radioactive substances.
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.
- At 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.
- At 2:59 pm on September 14, we started injecting water to the reactor
through core spray system water injection piping arrangement in addition
to the water injection through reactor feed water system piping
arrangement.
Water is currently injected at approx. 2.9 m3/h through reactor feed
water system piping arrangement, and at approx. 7.1 m3/h through core
spray system water injection piping arrangement.
- At 5:21 pm on May 31, we started cyclic cooling for the water in the
spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool
Cooling and Filtering System.
- At 8:06 pm on June 28, we started injecting nitrogen gas into the Primary
Containment Vessel.
- From 6:00 pm on October 28, we put the gas management system of the
reactor containment vessel in operation.
- On November 22, we sampled gases in gas management system in primary
containment vessel of Unit 2 to analyze nuclides. As a result of
nuclides analysis, we evaluated that there is no recriticality since the
density of Xe-135 is below the detection limits (1.1x10-1 Bq/cm3) and
that indicates the analyzed figure is below the determination criteria
for recriticality such as 1 Bq/cm3. Regarding Xe-135, we decided to use
the sampling result at gas vial container at inlet in gas management
system to evaluate the recriticality based on the "Report with regard to
"Policy on the mid term security" for the Units 1 to 4 of Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency at
the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (1) (revision)" (Press
released on November 9th) because charcoal filter was used to detect
Xe-135 and we evaluated that they are created by spontaneous fission.
* Detection Limits Charcoal Filter: Order of 10-6, Gas Vial Container:
Order of 10-1
- At 11:04 am on November 6, we started operation of radioactive material
decontamination instrument of spent fuel pool.
Unit 3 (Shut down)
- Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed at approximately 11:01 am
on March 14. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- At 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.
- At 2:58 pm on September 1, we started water injection by core spray
system in addition to water injection by the reactor feed water system
piping arrangement.
Water is currently injected at approx. 2.3 m3/h through reactor feed
water system piping arrangement, and at approx. 8.2 m3/h through core
spray system water injection piping arrangement.
- At 7:47 pm on June 30, we started cyclic cooling for the water in the
spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool
Cooling and Filtering System.
- 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 around 6 am on March 15, we confirmed the explosive sound and the
sustained damage around the 5th floor rooftop area of Reactor Building.
- At 12:44 pm on July 31, we started cyclic cooling for the water in the
spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool
Cooling and Filtering System. (Hydrazine was also injected from 1:15 pm
to 2:50 pm on November 17)
- At 11:34 am on August 20, we started an operation of desalination
equipment in the spent fuel pool.
- At this moment, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage
inside the primary containment vessel.
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
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 (System B) by its original seawater pump.
- At this moment, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage
inside the primary containment vessel.
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
of Unit 6 to cool down Spent Fuel Pool.
- At 7:27 pm on March 20, the reactor achieved cold shutdown.
- At 2:33 pm on September 15, we started separately cooling the reactor
through the Residual Heat Removal System and the spent fuel pool through
Equipment Cooling Water System and Fuel Pool Cooling System.
- At this time, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage inside
the primary containment vessel.
- From November 15, we started to cleanup work in order to prevent
performance deterioration of pump caused by inletting sand or other
materials piled up at the bottom of pump room of intake channel.
Others
- At around 10 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 8 pm on June 17, we started operation of Water Treatment Facility
against the accumulated water. 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.
- At 7:41 pm on August 19, we started treatment of accumulated water by
parallel operation of one line from the cesium adsorption instrument to
the decontamination instrument and the other treatment line of the cesium
adsorption instrument No.2.
- At 2:06 pm on October 7, we started to spray purified accumulated water
brought from Unit 5 and 6 continually in order to prevent dust scattering
and potential fire outbreaks from the cut down trees.
- On October 28, we started installation of the water proof wall at the sea
side, in front of the existing shore protection, Units 1-4, in order to
contain marine pollution by underground water.
- At 9:10 am on November 10, we started transfer of accumulated water from
the basement of Unit 2 turbine building to Centralized Radiation Waste
Treatment Facility High Temperature Incinerator Building.
- At 9:25 am on November 15, we started transfer of accumulated water from
basement of Unit 3 turbine building to Centralized Radiation Waste
Treatment Facility Building.
- As part of improving the liability of water injection into the reactors,
we plan to build reactor water injection facilities at Units 1 to 3. From
10:22 am on November 21, we started transferring the stored water from
the condensate storage tank to basement of turbine building of Unit 3
- At 10:47 pm on November 18, alarm occurred indicating high pressure of
treated water, and desalination plant (RO) unit 2-2 suspended due to
automatic suspend of a high pressure pump and a booster pump. There is
no impact for water injection to the reactor because of enough fresh
water stock. On November 22, we checked outside of the unit and found no
trouble, and so we remove the discharged water in drain line at exit side
of the Unit and reset the alarm. At 2:00 pm on the same day, we
restarted the Unit. While we had been checking the operation of the Unit,
at 9:56 am on November 23, the alarm occurred again indicating the high
pressure of treated water at the exit side of Unit2-2, and the unit
stopped automatically. We are now investigating the reason of this
incident. There is no impact for water injection to the reactor because
of enough fresh water stock.
- At around 0:15 pm on November 23, when we started desalination plant (RO)
unit 1A and 1B to check whether water flows the system properly or not,
we found exit side of piping of the units broke and leakage of treatment
water in dam, and so we immediately stopped operation of the units. The
amount of leakage from unit 1A and 1B are about 14 litters and 15 litters
respectively, and now it already stopped leaking. We are now
investigating the reason of this incident. There is no impact for water
injection to the reactor because desalination plant (RO) unit 2-1 and 3-1
are still operating and there are also enough fresh water stock.