*The 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, 2011. It was assumed to be hydrogen
explosion.
- At 3:37 pm on March 25, 2011, 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 10:11 am on December 10, 2011, in addition to water injection from
water feeding system, we started water injection from piping of core
spray system to the reactor.
- At 11:07 am on January 12, 2012, we adjusted the amount of the water
injection from approx. 4.6 m3/h to approx. 4.5 m3/h (the reactor feed
water system), from approx. 1.6 m3/h to approx. 2 m3/h (the core spray
system) since we confirmed fluctuation of the amount of the water
injection into the reactor.
Current water injection volume is approx. 4.5 m3/h from the reactor feed
water system and approx. 2 m3/h from the core spray system.
- At 1:31 am on April 7, 2011, we commenced injection of nitrogen gas into
Primary Containment Vessel.
- At 11:22 am on August 10, 2011, 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, 2011, we completed installation of the cover for the
Reactor Building in order to contain dispersion of radioactive substances.
- At 4:04 pm on November 30, 2011, we started operation to inject nitrogen
into the reactor pressure vessel.
- At 6:00 pm on December 19, 2011, a full-scale operation of the PCV gas
management system started.
Unit 2 (Shut down)
- At approximately 6:00 am on March 15, 2011, an abnormal noise began
emanating from nearby Pressure Suppression Chamber and the pressure
within the chamber decreased.
- At 10:10 am on March 26, 2011, 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, 2011, in addition to water injection from
water feeding system, we started water injection from piping of core
spray system to the reactor.
Current water injection volume is approx. 2.8 m3/h from the reactor feed
water system and approx. 7.1 m3/h from the core spray system.
- At 5:21 pm on May 31, 2011, 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, 2011, we started injecting nitrogen gas into the
Primary Containment Vessel.
- At 6:00 pm on October 28, 2011, a full-scale operation of the PCV gas
management system started.
- On January 11, 2012, we conducted sampling survey of the gas in the
primary containment vessel gas management system. As a result of the
analysis, we confirmed that at the gate of the system the density of
xenon 135 was below the measurable limit (1.1 x 10-1 Bq/cm3) and thus it
was lower than the judgment criteria for the recriticality, 1Bq/cm3.
- At 10:46 am on December 1, 2011, we started the nitrogen injection to the
Reactor Pressure Vessel.
Unit 3 (Shut down)
- Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed at approximately 11:01 am
on March 14, 2011. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- At 6:02 pm on March 25, 2011, 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, 2011, we started water injection by core spray
system in addition to water injection by the reactor feed water system
piping arrangement.
- At 10:30 am on January 12, 2012, we adjusted the amount of the water
injection from approx. 1 m3/h to 0 m3/h (the reactor feed water system),
from approx. 8.2 m3/h to approx. 9.0 m3/h (the core spray system) in
order to switch the injection pipe arrangement of the reactor feed water
system for preparation for test operation of the reactor injection pump
in the turbine building. At 11:00 am, we adjusted the amount of the water
injection from approx. 0 m3/h to 1 m3/h (the reactor feed water system),
from approx. 9 m3/h to approx. 8 m3/h (the core spray system) since the
switch work was completed.
Current water injection volume is approx 1 m3/h from the reactor feed
water system and approx. 8 m3/h from the core spray system.
- At 7:47 pm on June 30, 2011, 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 9:35 am on January 12, we stopped the Unit 3 spent fuel pool
alternative cooling system in order to install a radioactive materials
removal equipment in the Unit 3 spent fuel pool (the temperature of the
spent fuel pool at the time of the stoppage: approx. 12.7°C). As the
estimated increase of the temperature is 0.22°C/h (the outage time:
approx. 4 hours 30 minutes), there is no problem regarding the
temperature of the spent fuel pool.
- At 8:01 pm on July 14, 2011, injection of nitrogen gas into the Primary
Containment Vessel started.
- At 4:26 pm on November 30, 2011, we started operation to inject nitrogen
into the reactor pressure vessel.
Unit 4 (Outage due to regular inspection)
- At around 6 am on March 15, 2011, 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, 2011, 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 1:30 pm on January 12, 2012, we started
the injection of hydrazine [corrosion inhibitor] in conjunction with the
cyclic cooling).
- At 10:58 am on November 29, 2011, in order to decrease more salinity, we
installed Ion exchange equipment and started the operation of such
equipment.
- 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, 2011, we started the Residual Heat Removal System
Pump in order to cool the spent fuel pool.
- At 2:45 pm on July 15, 2011, we started the operation of the original
Residual Heat Removal System (System B) by its original seawater pump.
- At 10:11 am on December 22, 2011, since we finished the recovery work of
seawater pump (System B) of equipment water cooling system, we made a
trial run. At 11:25 am on the same day, we confirmed no abnormalities
and restarted the operation.
- 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, 2011, we started the Residual Heat Removal
System Pump of Unit 6 to cool down Spent Fuel Pool.
- At 2:33 pm on September 15, 2011, 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 moment, we do not think there is any reactor coolant leakage
inside PCV.
Others
- At around 10 am on June 13, 2011, 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, 2011, 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, 2011, 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, 2011, 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, 2011, 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 12:25 pm on December 13, 2011, we started the re-circulating operation
of desalination facility (reverse osmosis membrane type) for the purpose
of suppression of condensed water after desalination treatment.
- From 10:15 am on January 12 to 12:50 pm on January 12, 2012, we conducted
the transfer of the tank storage water from the Unit 3 condensate storage
tank to the basement of the Unit 2 turbine building.
- Because of the finding of accumulated water containing radioactive
materials at the trench between the Process Main Building and the
Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building[High
Temperature Incinerator Building](December 18, 2011), we started the
inspection of other trenches at the site on January 11.
In the inspection conducted on January 12, we confirmed a puddle in the
Unit 3 transformer cable duct for activation. As a result of nuclide
analysis, the radioactive concentration of the puddle water is below
measurable limit for I-131, 4.9x101Bq/cm3 for Cs-134, 6.9x101Bq/cm3 for
Cs-137 (Total of the major three nuclides reaches 100Bq/cm3). As
indicated above, it was found out that the water contained relatively
highly-concentrated radioactive materials. We presume that the
accumulated water in the building is not likely to have flown into the
cable duct since the water level (water surface) of the puddle is higher
than that of the accumulated water in the building.