*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 9:37 am on January 29, due to switching in the water piping system of
the reactor water injection pump on the hill, we adjusted water
injection from the feed water system to the reactor of Unit 1 from
approx. 4.5 m3/h to approx. 5.5 m3/h, and the injection from the reactor
core spray system from approx. 2.0 m3/h to 1.0m3/h.
The Current water injection volume is approx. 5.5 m3/h from the reactor
feed water system and approx. 1 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.
- At 5:10 pm on January 25, regarding the reactor injection from the feed
water system at the Unit 2, we changed the injection line from the pump
located uphill to the T/B reactor injecting pump.
The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is
approx. 7.1 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 1.7 m3/h.
- 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.
- At 10:46 am on December 1, 2011, we started the nitrogen injection to
the Reactor Pressure Vessel.
- At 11:50 am on January 19, 2012, we started the operation of the spent
fuel pool desalting facility.
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 3:01 pm on January 27, the water injection to the reactor from the
feed water injection system was switched from the reactor water
injection pump in the turbine building to the reactor water injection
pump on the hill.
- At 10:00 am on January 29, since we confirmed decrease in water
injection to the reactor we adjusted water injection from the reactor
core spray system from approx. 1.5 m3/h to 2.0m3/h.
The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is
approx. 7.1 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 2 m3/h.
- 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 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.
- At 3:18 pm on January 14, we started operation of the radioactive
material removal instrument for the spent fuel pool in Unit 3
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 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 10:00 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 8:00 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.
- As 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.
- From 10 :00 am to 4:00 pm on January 28, we transferred the accumulated
water from the basement of T/B, Unit 6 to the temporary tank.
- At 10:06 pm on January 28, we started transferring accumulated water
from the basement floor of the turbine building of Unit 3 to the
Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid
Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator
Building] and the process main building). At 8:18 am of January 29 we
have stopped this transfer.
- At 10:12 pm on January 28, we started transferring accumulated water
from the basement floor of the turbine building of Unit 2 to the
Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid
Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator
Building] and the process main building). At 8:21 am of January 29 we
have stopped this transfer.
- At 8:49 am on January 29, since a gradual decline was confirmed in the
amount of treatment at the second Cesium adsorption apparatus (sally),
we temporarily stopped this facility in order to conduct reverse wash of
the filter.
- At 9:50 am of January 29, one of our employees, during adjustment works
of the water flow to the feed water spray system, found a water leak
from near the flow rate detector of the emergency reactor injection pump
on the hill (C) which is now at standby. We shut down the valve at the
leakage point and at 9:55 am confirmed that the water leak has stopped
(amount of leakage under examination). The leakage point is on the hill
(at the front of the main office building) and there are traces that
show that a certain amount of water has flowed into the drain, and we
are examining whether this water has flowed into the ocean or not. The
surface radioactivity concentration near the leakage point is as the
same level as the atmosphere around (radioactivity concentration near
the evaporative concentration apparatus is below measurable limit in all
three major nuclides (sampled on 20 December 2011)
:I-134: 1.6X10-2Bq/cm3, Cs-134:2.9X10-2Bq/cm3, Cs-137:3.3X10-2Bq/cm3,
and 6.0X10-1Bq/cm3 for all beta nuclides (sampled on 29 November 2011).)
Water injection to the reactor is maintained by the ordinary reactor
injection pump on the hill (A) and (C).
- Around 9:35am on 29 January 2012, an alarm on a system failure (Unit 4
SFP backup cooling system) was given in Unit 4 spent fuel pool backup
cooling system. According to the site investigation, a pump (A) to
circulate cooling water of a secondary system had been stopped and the
water circulation was stopped accordingly (Fuel pool temperature at the
time of the alarm: 21°C). After the event, we discovered cooling water
leakage from A2 line of air-fin cooler unit (A1-A4 lines) of the A
system of the secondary system. We confirmed that the water leakage was
stopped by closing valve of the Unit A2 line. The cooling water is from
a filtrate tank for fire extinction and doesn't contain radioactive
materials. The stopped secondary pump (A) was restarted at 11:14am and
water cooling of the spent fuel pool was restarted accordingly (Fuel
pool temperature at the time of cooling restart: 21°C)