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Press Release (Feb 20,2012)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 3:00 pm, February 20)
  
*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. 4.7 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. 
  The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is 
  approx.7.7m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx.6.1m3/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 around 7:05 am on February 18, within the Unit 2 SFP alternative 
  cooling system, an alarm sounded showing that the water flow difference 
  was large at the gateway of primary system pump and the system 
  automatically shutdown. After that, we confirmed there was no 
  abnormalities such as leakage at the location where the primary system 
  shutdown. However, as temperature decreased in the outer temperature, the 
  secondary system cooing water temperature also decreased and it may 
  freeze, with a view toward facility protection, we resumed it so as to 
  prevent the primary and secondary system from freezing. Upon resumption, 
  we made sure there were no leakage or parameter abnormalities, and by 
  releasing the alarm at 11:54 pm on February 18, we activated the system. 
  Since we do not see any abnormalities, operation of the system is still 
  continuing. Afterwards, water flow difference turned to be normal figure 
  and we considered the cause is stuck of dust in the pipe of flow sensor. 
  From 1:46 pm to 2:38 pm on February 20, we conducted flashing of pipes of 
  flow sensor. During flushing, the system was not suspended and there are 
  no abnormalities on operation after flushing. 
- 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. 1.9 m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx. 5 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. 
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.
- 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 8:35 am on February 20, since the amount of disposed water in the 
  Second Cesium Adsorption instruments decreases gradually, we suspended 
  the system for cleaning. At 11:07 am on February 20,the system restarted 
  and at 11:11 am, the amount of water reached ordinary volume(approx. 36.2 
  m3/h). - At 9:30 am on February 20, regarding the accumulated water at the 
  basement of Unit 3 Turbine Building, transfer to Centralized Waste 
  Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment 
  Building [High Temperature Incinerator Building]) started.
- At 9:39 am on February 20, regarding the accumulated water at the 
  basement of Unit 2 Turbine Building, transfer to Centralized Waste 
  Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction Treatment 
  Building [High Temperature Incinerator Building]) started.
- At 10:00 am on February 20, we started to transfer accumulated water from 
  underground floor of turbine building of Unit 6 to temporary tank.
- According to the investigation on trenches on January 19, 2012, high 
  density contaminated water inside was found inside circulating water pump 
  discharge valve pit of Unit 2 water pump room Therefore, at 10:11 am on 
  February 20, 2012, we started to transfer the accumulated water from the 
  pit to the basement of Unit 2 Turbine Building. 
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