*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. 4.3 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 1.8 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.
- 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.
On February 15, sampling for the air of the PCV gas control system was
conducted. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that xenon 135
at the entrance of the system was below the detection limit
(1.0X10-1Bq/cm3) and recriticality criteria 1 Bq/cm3.
- 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. 2.9 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 6.1 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.
Since 9:50 am on February 10, we have conducted the work to add flow
meters to the nitrogen injection line at the side of Primary Containment
Vessel of Unit 3 in order to improve the reliability of nitrogen
injection activity. During this period, due to this work, we suspended
the nitrogen injection task temporarily.
- 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.
- In order to conduct inspection of the strainer changeover valve of the
pump of the reactor sea water system of Unit 6 from February 14 to
February 17, at 10:02 am on February 14, we stopped cooling of the spent
fuel pool by the spent fuel pool cooling system (B) and at 10:06 am on
the same day, we stopped the pump of the reactor sea water system (A)
(spent fuel pool water temperature during the stoppage: approx. 23°C).
Because the spent fuel pool cooling system isn't in operation during the
inspection, we conduct alternating cooling of the reactor and the spent
fuel pool by the residual heat removal system. The water temperature in
the reactor and the spent fuel pool are expected to rise up to 37°C and
31°C respectively during the inspection, but in terms of the temperature
raise, we estimate that it is not a problem.
- 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 accumulated water containing radioactive materials was found in the
trench between Process Main Building and Miscellaneous Solid Waste
Volume Reduction Treatment Building (High Temperature Incinerator
Building) in Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (December 18,
2011), inspection of other trenches in the site was commenced from
January 11. As of the last inspection on February 15, the inspection of
trenches etc. were completed.
The inspection done on February 15, the result (quick estimation) of
inspection is as follows(place and nuclide analysis):
- Inside of fire extinction pipe trench(East of Unit 3)
I-131: Below the detection limit, Cs-134: 3.4X100Bq/cm3,
Cs-137: 4.8X100Bq/cm3
- Inside Unit 5 and 6, Transformer disaster prevention pipe trench
I-131: Below the detection limit, Cs-134: 1.0X10-1Bq/cm3,
Cs-137: 9.3X10-2Bq/cm3
- Fire extinction pipe trench(Southwest of Unit 5)
I-131: Below the detection limit, Cs-134: 1.4X10-1Bq/cm3,
Cs-137: 1.6X10-1Bq/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 2:43 pm on February 10, we started to transfer accumulated water from
underground floor of turbine building of Unit 2 to centralized radiation
waste treatment facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction
Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator Building]).
- From 9:57 am on February 12 to 9:50 am on February 16, we completed to
transfer accumulated water in the underground of turbine building of
Unit 3 to the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility (Process
Main Building).
- From 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on February 15, we transferred accumulated
water at the basement of turbine building of unit 6 to temporary tank.
- At around 8:30 pm on February 15, we detected radiation from a face of a
worker of co-operating company who was collecting and delivering debris
at around the Unit 3 and the Solid Waste Storage Facility No1 and 2 by
the contamination test at J-Village. After the decontamination of the
face, we conducted the contamination test again by whole body counter.
As a result, no radioactive materials was taken in(below 2mSv). We
evaluated that the radiation was attached when he removed the equipment,
because there were no other workers who were detected the radiation at
the area and no defects of the equipment situation.