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Press Release (Feb 03,2012)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 3:00 pm, February 3)
*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.
 The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is 
 approx. 4.7m3/h and that from  the core spray system is approx. 2m3/h.
-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. 
 The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is 
 approx. 2.9m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 5.7m3/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. 
 The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is 
 approx. 3m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 5.4m3/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 1:24 pm on February 3, 2012, we started 
 injection of hydrazine [corrosion inhibitor].) 
-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 4:05 pm on January 30 to 10:20 am on February 3, we transferred 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) through newly installed polyethylene pipes.
-From 4:12 pm on January 30 to 10:12 am on February 3, we transferred 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) through newly installed polyethylene pipes.
-At 9:18 am on January 31, we started transfer of Sub-drain Water of Unit 
 6 to the temporary tank. We will conduct transferring to the temporary 
 tank appropriately.
-At 10 am on February 3, 2012, we started to transfer the accumulated 
 water from within Unit 6 T/B to the temporary tank.
-At 9:30 am on February 3, 2012, we started dust sampling at the opening 
 section for equipment hatch and the upper parts of Unit 3 reactor 
 building, and then at 1:45 pm on the same date, we finished dust sampling. 
-At 12:30 pm on February 3, one of TEPCO's employees and a worker of 
 cooperating companies found ooze at the tank joint of concentration tank 
 of Water Desalinations (reverse osmosis membrane). There was ooze on the 
 surface of concrete foundation on which the tank was set, but it was not 
 in shape of puddle and there has been no leakage to the oceans. 
 We retightened the joint bolt afterwards and confirmed at 2:44 pm on the 
 same day that the ooze from the joint had been stopped. 
 The results of having measured the radiation dose of tank joint with ooze 
 were 0.9mSv/h of γ-ray and 50mSv/h of β-ray (Those of airborne 
 radiation dose are 0.2mSv/h of γ-ray and 7mSv/h of β-ray). 
 As for the leakage, it is so little that it is invisible, but high 
 radiation dose (22mSv/h of γ-ray and 2000mSv/h of β-ray) was confirmed 
 at the gap between the concrete foundation which is just below the joint 
 with ooze and the tank flange. Thus, there must have been drops. The 
 oozed water from the joint is estimated to be concentrated water (saline 
 water) after being treated with Water Desalinations (reverse osmosis 
 membrane). (The radioactivity density of water at the inlet of 
 evaporative concentration facility sampled on December 20, 2011 were 
 1.2x101Bq/cm3 of cesium134, 1.7x101Bq/cm3 of cesium137, and 2.7x105 
 Bq/cm3 of all-β.) 
 After covering the concrete surface with ooze using acrylic boards and 
 stage planks, the radiation dose became 1.0mSv/h of γ-ray and 15mSv/h of 
 β-ray. 
-Newly found water leakage after the latest report (at 4:00 pm on February 
 2) are as follows: 
 at header flange of purified water transfer line (line which transfer 
 from purified water tank to common pool) (it was found at around 11:25 am 
 on February 3) 
 (filtrated water*: about a pencil lead) 
 *filtrated water: (water taken from dam) 
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