*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.4.4 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 1.9 m3/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
feed water system, we started water injection from piping of core spray
system to the reactor.
Because the tendency of temperature rise at the bottom of PCV had been
accelerated since February 2, we increased the amount of water injected
to the reactor and continued monitoring the tendency of the temperature
fluctuation. Since the temperature had remained high around 70.0 °C, we
injected boric acid into the reactor as a safety countermeasures against
the re-criticality from 0:19 am to 3:20 am on February 7, and changed the
amount of the core spray system injection water from 3.7m3/h to 6.7m3/h at
4:24 am (the amount of the continuing feed water system injection is
6.8m3/h). Currently, the temperature is approx. 67.9°C (as of 5 am on
February 9). We will monitor the progress continuously.
At 9:47 am February 9, as the amount of water injection decrease, we
adjusted the volume from the feed water system of reactor Unit 2
increased from approx. 6.4 m3/h to approx. 6.8 m3/h(the amount of the
continuing injection from reactor core spray system is approx. 6.8 m3/h.
The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is
approx. 6.8 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 6.8 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
control 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. 2.8 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 5.8m3/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.
-As a result of the inspection made on February 8, the preliminary results
of the nuclide analysis and executed place are as follows:
·Inside the duct for power cables for the Unit 6 water intake
I-131: below the detectible limit, Cs-134: 1.0x10-1 Bq/cm3, Cs-137:
8.3x10-2 Bq/cm3
·Inside the trench for the Unit 5 and 6 storm drain pipes
I-131: below the detectible limit, Cs-134: 1.7x10-1 Bq/cm3, Cs-137:
2.5x10-1 Bq/cm3
·Inside the duct for the Unit 5 radioactive fluid pipes
I-131: below the detectible limit, Cs-134: 8.0x10-2 Bq/cm3, Cs-137:
1.3x10-1 Bq/cm3
·Inside the duct for the Unit 6 main transformer cables
I-131: below the detectible limit, Cs-134: 2.8x10-1 Bq/cm3, Cs-137:
4.3x10-1 Bq/cm3
·Inside the trench for heavy oil pipes (east of Unit 5)
I-131: below the detectible limit, Cs-134: 2.0x10-1 Bq/cm3, Cs-137:
2.8x10-1 Bq/cm3
-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 2:14 pm on February 7, 2012, we started transferring the accumulated
water from the basement of turbine building of Unit 2 to Centralized
Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume
Reduction Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator Building]).
-From At 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on February 8, 2012, we transferred the
accumulated water from inside the turbine building of Unit 6 to the
temporary tank.
-At 10:00 am on February 9, 2012, we started transferring the accumulated
water from the turbine building of Unit 6 to the temporary tank.
* In the Chapter 12 of Nuclear Reactor Facilities Security Regulation "The
Way of Ensuring Mid-term Security", as the treatments like "Operational
limitation" or "Measures required in case of not satisfying the
operational limitation" are determined, it is supposed the operator act
per the required measures if it fails to satisfy the operational
limitation. This time, to implement maintenance works, we changed the
amount of water injection into Unit 2 (from 3:48 am on February 7 to
6:48 pm on February 8) by conducting a planned shift beyond the range of
operational limitation.