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Press Release (Jan 28,2012)
Status of TEPCO's Facilities and its services after the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake (as of 10:00 am, January 28)
Due to the Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake which occurred on March 
11, 2011, TEPCO's facilities including our nuclear power stations have 
been severely damaged. We deeply apologize for the anxiety and 
inconvenience caused.
With regard to the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, on 
April 17, 2011, we have compiled the roadmap towards restoration from the 
accident and on July 19 we accomplished the Step1 target "Radiation dose 
is in steady decline". Then on December 16 we confirmed the 
accomplishment of the Step 2 target "Release of radioactive materials is 
under control and radiation doses are being significantly held down".
In addition, on December 21, 2011, we have compiled the "Mid-to-long-Term 
Roadmap toward the Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power 
Units 1-4, TEPCO".
In addition to the maintenance of the plant's stable condition, we will 
implement Mid-to-Long Term countermeasures towards the decommissioning of 
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Units 1-4 to enable evacuees to return to 
their homes as soon as possible and reduce the anxiety of the people in 
Fukushima and the whole nation as soon as possible.
 
Below is the status of TEPCO's major facilities. 
 
 *The updates are underlined. 
 
[Nuclear Power Station]  
 
·Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: Unit 1 to 3: shut down due to 
 the earthquake: 
  (Units 1 to 4: shutdown due to the earthquake)
 
 -At 9 :51 pm on January 27, we started to transfer the accumulated water 
  from the basement of T/B, Unit 2 to the Centralized Waste Treatment 
  Facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building 
  [High Temperature Incinerator Building] and Process Main Building). At  
  8:29 am on January 28, the transfer was paused. 
 
 -At 9 :48 pm on January 27, we started to transfer the accumulated water 
  from the basement of T/B, Unit 3 to the Centralized Waste Treatment 
  Facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building 
  [High Temperature Incinerator Building] and Process Main Building). At 
  8:31 am on January 28, the transfer was paused. 
 
 -At 10 :00 am on January 28, we started to transfer the accumulated water  
  from the basement of T/B, Unit 6 to the temporary tank. 
 
·Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station: 
  (Units 1 to 4: shutdown due to the earthquake) 
 
·Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Station: Units 6: under normal operation
  (Units 1 to 5 and 7: outage due to regular inspections)  
  
[Thermal Power Station] 
·Power supply has returned to normal and facilities damaged by the 
 earthquake are now being handled in a timely manner. 
 
[Hydro Power Station] 
·Power supply has returned to normal and facilities damaged by the 
 earthquake are now being handled in a timely manner.
  
[Impacts on Transmission Facilities] 
·Power supply has returned to normal and facilities damaged by the 
 earthquake are now being handled in a timely manner.
 
[Impacts on Power Supply and Demand Balance] 
This winter, there are some minus factors such as the regular inspection 
of Unit 5 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station*. On the other hand, 
there are several plus factors such as the recovery of the common thermal 
power stations which suffered the earthquake. As a result, we expect to 
secure 54.6 GW (at the end of January), 53.7 GW (at the end of February) 
supply power.  
Compared to the maximum demand in the last winter, which is 51.5 GW, we 
will have 2.2 - 3.1 GW generation reserve margin. 
 
We expect to maintain stable power supply this winter, however, as there 
remains possibilities of unplanned shutdowns at our power stations and 
growth in the demand according to the rapid change in the temperature, we 
would like to ask your reasonable effort to save electricity. 
 
We will continue to make our efforts to maintain stable operation and 
maintenance of the power facilities in order to "prevent in principle" 
the planned blackouts and secure power supply. 
 
* Correction of Description in [Impacts on Power Supply and Demand Balance]
We described,"there will be some minus factors such as the regular 
inspection of Unit 5 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station" in the 
previous press release. However, because Unit 5 of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 
Nuclear Power Station has already conducted a regular inspection since 
January 25, we revise the previous sentence to "there are some minus 
factors such as the regular inspection of Unit 5 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa 
Nuclear Power Station". We would like to apologize for the correction 
(February 8, 2012). 
 
Appendix: Past Progress (As of 10:00 am, January 28, 2012) (PDF 367KB) 
Appendix: Past Progress (From March 11, 2011 to July 31, 2011) (PDF 225KB) 
 
* Revised past progress 
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