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Press Release (Feb 22,2012)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 3:00 pm, February 22)
  
* 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. 
- With regard to the water injection volume for Unit 2 reactor, which was 
  increased with temperature figure raising, we have gradually adjusted it 
  to the original volume before temperature increasing (Feed water system: 
  approx. 3.0m3/h, core spray system: approx. 6.0m3/h).As no abnormality 
  has been observed in the variation of the plant parameter after the 
  change in the flow rate on February 20, at 7:44 pm on February 21, we 
  changed the water injection volume from feed water system from approx. 
  5.5m3/h to approx. 4.0m3/h (The water injection level from core spray 
  system is continuing at approx. 6.0m3/h) 
  The current water injection amount from the reactor feed water system is 
  approx.4.0m3/h and that from the core spray system is approx.6.0 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 around 3:43pm on February 20, we observed that 
  an error message was displayed in the screen of the noble gas monitoring 
  system B of the gas management system of the primary containment vessel 
  of Unit 2. Accordingly, the density of the noble gas in the system B was 
  no longer observable at the Central Monitoring Station in the Main Anti- 
  Earthquake Building. Observation was continued using the system A, one of 
  the two systems A and B, which did not display any error message. However, 
  at around 5:20pm on February 21, the same error message was displayed in 
  the screen of system A. As a result, the density of the noble gas was no 
  longer observable at Central Monitoring Station in the Main Anti- 
  Earthquake Building. After investigating the situation at the site, we 
  detected a failure of the transmission system which connects the site and 
  the Central Monitoring Station in the Main Anti-Earthquake Building. 
  However, there is no difficulty in confirming the subcriticality, as both 
  the system A and B can be observed from the monitor at the site and, at 
  the moment, the monitor screen can be remotely watched from the Central 
  Monitoring Station in the Main Anti-Earthquake Building. The cause of the 
  failure is now being investigated for restoration. The gas management 
  system of the primary containment vessel of Unit 2 itself is in normal 
  operation. 
- 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. 5.1 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. 
- 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. 
- As the component cooling sea water system pump (C) of Unit 6 has been 
  restored, we started test operation at 10:05 am on February 22. 
  Accordingly, the component cooling sea water system pump (A) stopped its 
  operation at 10:07 am on the same day. 
 
 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. 
- From 9:30 am on February 20 to 9:52 am on February 22, regarding the 
  accumulated water at the basement of Unit 3 Turbine Building, we 
  transferred to Centralized Waste Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid 
  Waste Volume Reduction Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator 
  Building]) . 
- At 9:39 am on February 20, regarding the accumulated water at the 
  basement of Unit 2 Turbine Building, we started transfer to Centralized 
  Waste Treatment Facility (Miscellaneous Solid Waste Volume Reduction 
  Treatment Building [High Temperature Incinerator Building]). 
- From 9:40 am to 3:45 pm on February 21, at the centralized radiation 
  waste treatment facility, we transferred accumulated water from site 
  banker to process main building. 
- 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, from 9:50 am to 
  3:34 pm on February 21, we transferred the accumulated water from the pit 
  to the basement of Unit 2 Turbine Building. At 9:43 am on February 22, we 
  restarted the transfer. 
- From 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on February 21, we transferred accumulated water 
  from underground floor of turbine building of Unit 6 to temporary tank.  
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