*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 5.6 ㎥/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 ㎥/h through reactor feed
water system piping arrangement, and at approx. 7.2 ㎥/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 (1.1 x 10-1 Bq/cm3) and that
indicates the analyzed figure is below the determination criteria for
recriticality such as 1 Bq/㎤. 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. 2.2 ㎥/h through reactor feed
water system piping arrangement, and at approx. 8.2 ㎥/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.
-On November 23, we finished all of this clean up work. At around 5:00 pm
on the same day, when we restarted pump of auxiliary cooling sea water
system (A) which was stopped due to the work, it was shut down
automatically right after it was restarted. Currently the cause is under
investigation. Reactor water and Spent Fuel Pool are planned to be cooled
alternatively by pump of residual heat removal system (A) until the pump
is recovered. The rise of increase in temperature of reactor water is
about 1.2°C/h and spent fuel pool is about 0.3°C/h and we think there are
no problems on these values.
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 organized the preparation work of change of the hose for condensed
water transferring line and desalination transferring line with the water
desalinations (reverse osmosis membrane type) which water leak was found on
November 17, we had changed the hose from November 22 to 23.
-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 to 9:45 am on November 24, we had transferred the
stored water from the condensate storage tank to basement of turbine
building of Unit 3
-At 9:31 am on November 24, we started transferring water from On-site
Bunker Building to Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility Process
Building.