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Press Release (Oct 20,2011)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 10:30 am, Oct. 20)
 
*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. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- At 3:37 pm on March 25, 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.
  Water is currently injected at approx. 3.6 m3/h through reactor feed 
  water system piping arrangement. 
- We commenced injection of nitrogen gas into Primary Containment Vessel 
  at 1:31 am on April 7.
- At 11:22 am on August 10, 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. 
Unit 2 (Shut down) 
- At approximately 6:00 am on March 15, an abnormal noise began emanating 
  from nearby Pressure Suppression Chamber and the pressure within the 
  chamber decreased. 
- At 10:10 am on March 26, 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, we started injecting water to the reactor 
  through core spray system water injection piping arrangement in addition 
  to the water injection through reactor feed water system piping 
  arrangement.
  Water is currently injected at approx. 3.5m3/h through reactor feed water 
  system piping arrangement, and at approx. 7.1 m3/h through core spray 
  system water injection piping arrangement.
- At 5:21 pm on May 31, 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, we started injecting nitrogen gas into the Primary 
  Containment Vessel. 
Unit 3 (Shut down) 
- Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed at approximately 11:01 am 
  on March 14. It was assumed to be hydrogen explosion.
- At 6:02 pm on March 25, 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, we started water injection by core spray 
  system in addition to water injection by the reactor feed water system 
  piping arrangement. 
  Water is currently injected at approx. 2.1m3/h through reactor feed water 
  system piping arrangement, and at approx. 8.0 m3/h through core spray 
  system water injection piping arrangement.
- At 7:47 pm on June 30, 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, injection of nitrogen gas into the Primary 
  Containment Vessel started. 
Unit 4 (Outage due to regular inspection) 
- At around 6 am on March 15, 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, 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 11:34 am on August 20, we started an operation of desalination 
  equipment in the spent fuel pool.
- 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, we started the Residual Heat Removal System Pump 
  in order to cool the spent fuel pool.
- At 2:30 pm on March 20, the reactor achieved cold shutdown.
- At 2:45 pm on July 15, we started the operation of the original Residual 
  Heat Removal System (System B) by its original seawater pump.
- For inspection of the intake, we stopped seawater system pump for cooling 
  auxiliary machine at 9:05 am on October 20. At 9:13 am on the same day, 
  we stopped cooling the reactor by stop of residual heat removal system 
  pump (D). After that, at 9:18 am on the same day, we stopped residual 
  heat removal system seawater system pump (D). 
- At this time, 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, we started the Residual Heat Removal System Pump 
  of Unit 6 to cool down Spent Fuel Pool.
- At 7:27 pm on March 20, the reactor achieved cold shutdown. 
- At 2:33 pm on September 15, 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 time, we don't think there is any reactor coolant leakage inside 
  the primary containment vessel. 
Others 
- At around 10 am on June 13, we started the operation of the circulating 
  seawater purification facility installed at the screen area of Unit 2 
  and 3.
- At 8 pm on June 17, 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, 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, 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.
- At 6:09 am on October 18, we suspended the Cesium adsorption apparatus 
  unit No.1 due to power reinforcement works of the water desalinations. 
  At 9:04 am we suspended Unit No, 2. At approximately 11:00 am, while we 
  were replacing the motor of the pumps (H2-2) in the skid of the suspended 
  Cesium absorption apparatus, a puddle of water was found in the skid 
  (depth approx. 15 cm, volume approx. 3 m3). We also found that the 
  leakage already stopped when we found the puddle of water. After that, 
  we interrupted the work of change of the motor and conducted draining 
  the water by underwater pump. The cause is currently under investigation.
  At 1:29 pm on October 19, since we completed the reinforce work for power 
  source for water treatment facilities, we restarted the second cesium 
  adsorption apparatus. After that we restarted the apparatus at 5:55 pm 
  on October 19. 
  At 9:06 pm on October 19, in the water treatment facilities under 
  operation, a SMZ pump of the 4th process line of cesium adsorption 
  apparatus automatically stopped. A pump of the 3rd process line is 
  continuously operated. Water treatment by the cesium adsorption apparatus 
  is also continuously operated at the flow rate approx. 17m3/h (the flow 
  rate before the automatic stop was approx. 20m3/h). 
- From 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on October 19, we transferred the accumulated 
  water from the temporary tank to the mega float.
- At 10:00 am on October 20, we started transferring the accumulated water 
  from the basement of turbine building of Unit 3 to the High Temperature 
  Incinerator Building of Central Radioactive Waste Treatment Facility. 
- At 10:12 am on October 20, we started transferring the accumulated water 
  from the basement of turbine building of Unit 2 to the Process Main 
  Building of Central Radioactive Waste Treatment Facility. 
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